January 31st was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jackie Robinson. I’m not going to write any biography of the great man. Millions of words have already been written about Robinson, so there is no new territory for me to explore about his life and his years as a baseball trailblazer. There have been dozens of books and several movies made about his life. My personal favorite is Roger Kahn’s classic, “The Boys of Summer”. Though not specifically about Robinson, the book does give remarkable insight to what the time was like. Here’s a short paragraph from the book that describes Jackie Robinson better than I ever could:
“Robinson could hit and bunt and steal and run.