Jackie Robinson: When did die| Cause of death| Stats

Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.

Jackie Robinson: When did die| Cause of death| Stats

When did die:

Jackie Robinson, byname of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, (born January 31, 1919, Cairo, Georgia, U.S.—died October 24, 1972, Stamford, Connecticut), the first Black baseball player to play in the American major leagues during the 20th century.

Denial was his greatest prop, and he denied that he was dying.” The following year, Robinson suffered two mild strokes that left him unsteady and with numbness on his left side. Blood vessels continued to rupture in his eyes.

Cause of Death:

Weakened by heart disease and diabetes, Robinson died in 1972 at the age of 53 from a heart attack suffered at his home in Stamford, Connecticut.

But “I Never Had It Made” remains the closest thing to a word-of-mouth relaying who he was, and a springboard to more complete renditions of him (like, for example, the excellent “Jackie Robinson” PBS documentary by Ken Burns in 2016).

Stats:

Sixty-three years before Jackie Robinson became the first African American in the modern era to play in a Major League Baseball game, Moses Fleetwood Walker debuted in the league on May 1, 1884, with the Toledo Blue Stockings in a 5-1 loss against the Louisville Eclipse.