In April 1959, Robinson's eldest sister Marie died of cancer at the age of 41.

Tens of thousands of people lined the subsequent procession route to Robinson's interment site at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, where he is buried next to his son Jackie and mother-in-law Zellee Isum.

When Robinson was sick with his various ailments, his son accused Robinson's wife of keeping him under the influence of medication to manipulate him.

The couple had one son, Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Jr. ( a. k. a. Manny Robinson, 1933 – 1974 ), as well as a daughter from Gladys Robinson's first marriage.

It is said that Robinson's son heard a rapper in a pizza place, and the rapper was persuaded to come to a studio and record someone else's words while " Good Times " was played.

Former Million Dollar Listing cast members Chad Rogers and Josh Altman, Frank Robinson's daughter, Nichelle, Ron Kass's son, Robert, Anne Heche's former husband, Coleman Laffoon, and Richard D. Zanuck's daughter-in-law, Marisa, are among Hilton & Hyland's 106 salespeople.

In January 1843 Brontë took up another tutoring position in Thorp Green, appointed as the tutor to the Reverend Edmund Robinson's young son.

Roberts began working as a builder in 1859, and was joined by Peter Robinson's son, J. J. Robinson, in 1862.

Robinson's first theatrical break came as the role of OJ Simpson's son in Cocaine and Blue Eyes, a CBS television movie.

Upon Robinson's death in 1948, Psychiana's operations were taken over by his wife, Pearl Robinson, and son, Alfred Robinson ; however, the denomination's success was so closely associated with Robinson and his personal style that it failed to survive for more than a few years after his demise.

The Stockbridge School included Jackie Robinson's son among its attendees.

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

Recognizing his athletic talents, Robinson's older brothers Mack ( himself an accomplished athlete and silver medalist at the 1936 Summer Olympics ) and Frank inspired Jackie to pursue his interest in sports.

After Robinson's death, his widow founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation, of which she remains an officer as of 2009.

In 1987, both the National and American League Rookie of the Year Awards were renamed the " Jackie Robinson Award " in honor of the first recipient ( Robinson's Major League Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 encompassed both leagues ).

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

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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.

While the topic of retiring # 21 throughout Major League Baseball like Jackie Robinson's # 42 has been broached, and supported by groups such as Hispanics Across America, Jackie Robinson's daughter disagrees, believing that Major League Baseball should honor him another way.

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.

Gretzky's jersey number 99 is only the second number ever to be retired league-wide by a major North American sports league, the other being Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball in 1997.

Jackie Robinson's first season in the Major Leagues came in 1947, and Campanella began his Major League career with the Brooklyn Dodgers the following season, playing his first game on April 20, 1948.

In The Steve Harvey Show, gym teacher Cedric Jackie Robinson's mother owned land in Willacoochee.

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.

Doby heard of Jackie Robinson's minor league contract deal with the Montreal Royals of the International League from his base on Ulithi listening to Armed Forces Radio.

In 1947, Veeck gave a speech in an Ohio town and afterward was asked a question regarding Jackie Robinson's chances of making it as a major leaguer, to which Veeck responded he did not believe Robinson would fare well.

" During the season, when the long-departed Jackie Robinson's number 42 was being retired throughout baseball, and the still-living Doby was being virtually ignored by the media, an editorial in Sports Illustrated pointed out that Doby had to suffer the same indignities that Robinson did, and with nowhere near the media attention and implicit support.

Later, during his tenure as National League president, when several members of the St. Louis Cardinals planned to protest Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier, Frick threatened any players involved with suspension.

His most significant action as commissioner was the approval of Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, effectively integrating Major League Baseball.

Remaining the GM through the 1947 season, he continued the team's policy of not signing black players ( an unofficial league-wide policy that stayed in place until Jackie Robinson's signing by Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey and Robinson's debut with the AAA Montreal Royals in 1946 ).

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.

Robinson's role remains similar in circumstance to Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Bogart's initial breakthrough which the studio had originally earmarked for Robinson.

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 Robinson adopted an insulin injection regimen, the state of medicine at the time could not prevent continued deterioration of Robinson's physical condition from the disease.

" 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.

After Robinson's retirement from baseball, his wife, Rachel Robinson, pursued a career in academic nursing — she became an assistant professor at the Yale School of Nursing and director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center.

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.

A number of facilities at Pasadena City College ( successor to PJC ) are named in Robinson's honor, including Robinson Field, a football / soccer / track facility named jointly for Robinson and his brother Mack.

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 ).

Tony Robinson's Cunning Night Out, a largely improvised stage show, followed in early 2005 and included a mix of the many themes from his career for which Robinson is famous.

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.

From 10 September 2012, Robinson hosted a new series on History Channel Australia called " Tony Robinson's Time Walks ".

In 2006 he appeared in Tony Robinson: Me and My Mum, a documentary surrounding Robinson's decision to find a nursing home for his mother, and the difficulty he had with doing so.

The title card for Expedition Robinson | Expedition Robinson's 14 < sup > th </ sup > season, Robinson 2011.

When it became clear that the women's remains would never be found without Robinson's cooperation, a compromise of sorts was reached: In a carefully scripted plea in October, 2003, Robinson acknowledged only that Koster had enough evidence to convict him of capital murder for the deaths of Godfrey, Clampitt, Bonner, and the Faiths.

1733 copper engraving of the College, looking south, after the completion of John Robinson ( 1650-1723 ) | Bishop Robinson's and Provost Carter's buildings in Second quad