Jackie Robinson - Baseball Pioneer
The legendary player who broke the colour bar in baseball and won the World Series.
Sporting Witness · BBC World Service
October 24, 20158m 59s
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Show Notes
Jackie Robinson was a legendary figure in American baseball - the first black player in the professional game and the man who led the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series triumph in 1955. Tim Mansel talks to Robinson's son, David, and to veteran US sports writer, Roger Kahn. The programme was first broadcast in 2011.
(Photo: Jackie Robinson in the 1950s. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images).