"Jackie Robinson's impact ... After starring athletically at Pasadena Junior College, he became the first to letter in four sports at UCLA. He was a brilliant broken-field runner in football ...

not giving up — everything that Jackie Robinson stood for and was able to accomplish because of those traits.” Robinson, born in Cairo, Ga. but raised in Pasadena, Calif., was a four-sport ...

Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in Pasadena ... Despite the torments and pressure, Robinson performed spectacularly on the field, helping the Dodgers clinch the National ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became ... football and track and field. Robinson arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena Junior College in 1939 and it was clear ...

Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, but his family moved to Pasadena ... the base named its softball field after him. In 1981, UCLA opened its new baseball park, Jackie Robinson Stadium, and ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Robinson’s mother moved the family to Pasadena, Calif., when he was still an infant. But Cairo has always celebrated its ...