Jackie Robinson - Baseball Pioneer
The legendary player who broke the colour bar in professional baseball and led the Brooklyn Dodgers to the World Series in 1955.
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).
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