Jackie Robinson: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Jules Tygiel, Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (1983, reissued 1993, expanded ed. 1997); David Falkner, Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson, from Baseball to Birmingham (1995, reissued 1996); Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997); Kostya Kennedy, True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson (2022).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Added Top Questions. | Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Baseball Almanac - Jackie Robinson Baseball Stats. | Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jackie Robinson Museum. | May 21, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Lessons in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention From Number 42: The Told and Untold Stories of Jackie Robinson. | Jan 09, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jackie Robinson Museum. | Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Oct 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ESPN Classic - Jackie changed face of sports. | Sep 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR Illinois - Black baseball players struggled long after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. | Aug 02, 2025 | ||
| Article revised to mention Robinson's wife and children. | May 01, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers revised. | Feb 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 20, 2025 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 04, 2024 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black.” | Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Noted the cause of Robinson's death, added a quotation from his autobiography I Never Had It Made (1972), and revisited the purported strike threat and protest by the St. Louis Cardinals in 1947. | Feb 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Black History in America - Jackie Robinson. | Oct 16, 2023 | ||
| Revised the discussion of his time in Hawaii. | Apr 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Official Site of Jackie Robinson. | Jan 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | May 09, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 19, 2021 | ||
| Replaced media. | Nov 12, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 08, 2021 | ||
| Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. | Jul 24, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 16, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Apr 18, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | Oct 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Jackie Robinson. | Feb 17, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Biography of Jack Roosevelt Robinson. | Jan 27, 2017 | ||
| Rearranged photos in article. | Jul 10, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | May 02, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | May 02, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: America's Story from America's Library - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | May 02, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Society for American Baseball Research - Jackie Robinson. | May 02, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | Apr 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Baseball Hall of Fame - Robinson Jackie. | Apr 18, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Sports and Outdoor Recreation - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | Jun 10, 2011 | ||
| Added mention of Jackie Robinson Day and the annual "un-retirement" of Robinson's number. | Apr 15, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of Jackie Robinson. | Apr 13, 2009 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 08, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 19, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Library of Congress - Baseball and Jackie Robinson. | Oct 13, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: TIME 100: Jackie Robinson. | May 11, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 31, 2004 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 26, 2003 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |
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