A thin cable ran up Robinson's leg to a harness around his waist to arrest his fall just feet off the ground.

Further contributing to their growing separation, Garrison was worried that the North Star competed with his own National Anti-Slavery Standard and Marius Robinson's Anti-Slavery Bugle.

Greenberg was traded to the National League in 1947, which was Jackie Robinson's rookie year.

Robinson's image was also markedly larger and centered on the original poster, with Bogart relegated to the background.

Belying his future career, baseball was Robinson's " worst sport " at UCLA ; he hit. 097 in his only season, although in his first game he went 4-for-4 and twice stole home.

While a senior at UCLA, Robinson met his future wife, Rachel Isum, a UCLA freshman who was familiar with Robinson's athletic career at PJC.

Although the team enjoyed ultimate success, 1955 was the worst year of Robinson's individual career.

Robinson's breaking of the baseball color line and his professional success symbolized these broader changes and demonstrated that the fight for equality was more than simply a political matter.

" This wish was fulfilled only after Robinson's death: following the 1974 season, the Cleveland Indians gave their managerial post to Frank Robinson ( no relation ), a Hall of Fame-bound player who would go on to manage three other teams.

On April 15, 1997, Robinson's jersey number, 42, was retired throughout Major League Baseball, the first time any jersey number had been retired throughout one of the four major American sports leagues.

The gesture was originally the idea of outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr., who sought Rachel Robinson's permission to wear the number.

The tribute was continued in 2008, when, during games on April 15, all members of the Mets, Cardinals, Washington Nationals, and Tampa Bay Rays wore Robinson's number 42.

President Ronald Reagan posthumously awarded Robinson the Presidential Medal of Freedom on March 26, 1984, and on March 2, 2005, President George W. Bush gave Robinson's widow the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award bestowed by Congress ; Robinson was only the second baseball player to receive the award, after Roberto Clemente.

Though it was published almost ten years before Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy and takes place in a different version of the future, Icehenge contains elements that should be familiar to readers of the Mars series.

Robinson's campaign was boosted by a lack of organisation in the main opposition party: Fine Gael.

Joan Robinson's work on imperfect competition, at least, was a response to certain problems of Marshallian partial equilibrium theory highlighted by Piero Sraffa.

Robinson's original approach was based on these non-standard models of the field of real numbers.

Of the six players with retired numbers, five were retired for their play with the Phillies and one, 42, was universally retired by Major League Baseball when they honored the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier.

The novel was published as a collaboration, with Heinlein's name above Robinson's on the cover, in 2006.

Predating Goldberg, the corresponding term in the UK was, and still is, " Heath Robinson ", after the English illustrator with an equal devotion to odd machinery ( although Heath Robinson's creations did not have the same emphasis on the sequential or chain reaction element ).

However, Robinson's tenure lasted less than four years and was generally unsuccessful.

Five were in honor of Padre players and one was Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by all of Major League Baseball.

The 1884 club was the only major league team with black players ( Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother, Welday Walker ) prior to Jackie Robinson's appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

In comparison to Robinson's later works, The Memory of Whiteness is less like hard science fiction and more about art, especially music and the emotions triggered by it.

Reese is also famous for his support of his teammate Jackie Robinson, the first modern African American player in the major leagues, especially in Robinson's difficult first years.

These books, especially Pacific Edge, can be seen as forerunners to Robinson's Mars trilogy.

Because of this, Robinson's place in history is generally viewed as negative, especially within the current Aboriginal community.

Robinson's early dates for the gospels, especially John, have not carried widespread conviction among modern-critical scholars, although most conservative and traditionalist scholars concur with his dating of the synoptics.

Robinson's name has remained attached to the enterprise because at the time he left, McNally didn't have the money to replace the store's signage.

For example, George Livingstone Robinson's dissertation on chapters 9-14 concluded that those chapters had their origin in the period between 518 and 516 BCE and stand in close relation to chapters 1-8, having most probably been composed by Zechariah himself.

Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.

By that time, however, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had taken place, drawing the United States into World War II and ending Robinson's nascent football career.

Robinson's career is generally considered to mark the beginning of the post –" long ball " era in baseball, in which a reliance on raw power-hitting gave way to balanced offensive strategies that used footspeed to create runs through aggressive baserunning.

" Regarding Robinson's qualities on the field, Leo Durocher said, " Ya want a guy that comes to play.

Robinson's funeral service on October 27, 1972, at New York City's Riverside Church attracted 2, 500 mourners.

For the 60th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut, MLB invited players to wear the number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day in 2007.

* BlackFivesBlog: Jackie Robinson, Pro Basketball Star: Materials on Robinson's career with the Los Angeles Red Devils

Examples of early results from model theory applied to fields are Tarski's elimination of quantifiers for real closed fields, Ax's theorem on pseudo-finite fields, and Robinson's development of non-standard analysis.

The title is a deliberate play on the books of Robinson's Mars Trilogy.

* Edwin Arlington Robinson's villanelle The House on the Hill was first published in The Globe in September 1894.

* Year of the first Mars revolution and the Third World War on Earth, according to the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Red Mars.

* In Kim Stanley Robinson's ' Mars Trilogy ', the first hundred Human colonists land on Mars this year.

With Channel 4 Robinson presented Tony Robinson's Crime and Punishment and Catastrophe and Man on Earth focusing on humanity's struggle with climate change in the past 200, 000 years.