The New York Mets celebrated Jackie Robinson Day by presenting his widow, 101-year-old Rachel Robinson, with flowers before their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field on Monday.
Mykalai Kontilai, who fraudulently used Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers contracts, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million he stole from investors.
Robinson excelled at athletics from an early age, eventually enrolling at UCLA, where he lettered in four sports and met his future wife, a nursing student named Rachel Isum. Facing racism and ...