Author George Will writes, “Like many New Yorkers leaving home for work on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson wore a suit, tie and camel-hair overcoat as he headed for the subway. To his wife he said, ‘Just in case you have trouble picking me out, I’ll be wearing number 42.’”

No one had trouble spotting the black man in the Dodgers’ white home uniform when he trotted out to play first base at Ebbets Field. Suddenly, only 399, not 400, major league players were white.”  And baseball, and our nation, were forever changed.  View this short clip below of an extraordinary man.