Never mind if Jackie Robinson, in his brief 10-year Major League Baseball career, failed to even approximate the number of home runs the great Babe Ruth hit in that span. It took two more years before full integration came with the Boston Red Sox becoming the last major league team dispense with the color barrier in 1959. The following year, Robinson and the Yankees faced each other off anew in a World Series rematch, their seventh in 16 years. Robinson though went 0 for m3 in Game 7 won by the Yankees, 9-0, to win the championship. Prior to the start of the 1957 season, the Dodgers traded Robinson to their bitter rivals New York Giants.

Source: Manila Times October 23, 2017 15:45 UTC