Jackie Robinson's son David delivered a powerful message to Los Angeles Dodgers players on 75th anniversary of his father breaking the color barrier. ... Jackie Robinson died nine days later ...

Ronald "Ron" Rabinovitz might have spent his career as a traveling salesman, but it was his pen pal relationship with baseball legend Jackie Robinson that drew attention. Rabinovitz, of St. Louis ...

His eldest son, Jackie Jr., had died less than a year before that in a car accident, after climbing back from a substance-abuse habit he’d developed in Vietnam and becoming a counselor at the ...

Dodgers' Brooklyn Native Who Welcomed Jackie Robinson Dies: Report. Published Jan 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM EST Updated Jan 16, 2025 at 12:09 AM EST. By .

The year before Robinson’s death, his son Jackie Robinson Jr. died in a car accident after struggling for years to overcome substance abuse issues related to war wounds suffered in Vietnam in 1965.