Photo Story: Jackie Robinson

PHOTO STORY: JACKIE ROBINSON

On April 15, 1947, a 28-year-old Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball; breaking a 60-year history of the sport being segregated. Hired by Brooklyn Dodgers' owner, president and general manager, Branch Rickey, Robinson became part of Rickey's "Noble Experiment." (The Noble Experiment was the recruitment of a great athlete, but more importantly, the recruitment of an articulate, tolerable man, of great character, to end segregation in baseball.)