With Spring Training for Baseball Season in Full Swing...
...here's a bunch of serious collectibles!
Not baseball cards, but baseball comics!
These are the covers of the never-reprinted series that ran from 1949 to 1952 about the exploits of legendary player Jackie Robinson!
Not only was he Rookie of the Year, National League MVP, National League Batting Champion, two-time National League Base-Stealing Champion, a six-time All-Star, and a Baseball Hall of Famer (as if that wasn't enough)...
...he was also the man who made history in 1947 as the first Black player in the major leagues!
He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 through 1956 before retiring due to the effects of diabetes on his performance.
During that period, this series from Fawcett Comics came out each summer and fall from 1949 through 1952.
Besides being sold in newsstands and candy stores, it was also sold at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn where the Dodgers played home games.
Trivia: Babe Ruth was the only baseball player to have a longer-running comic than Robinson, but his mag, Babe Ruth Sports Comics was an anthology covering numerous sports with Babe himself appearing in only one story per issue for 11 issues!
There was a 1950 movie about Jackie,
The Jackie Robinson Story, where he
played himself (as an adult)!
In 2013, Chadwick (
Black Panther) Boseman superbly-portrayed Jackie in the movie
42: the Jackie Robinson Story!
To this day, Jackie Robinson is remembered as one of the greatest players in baseball history!
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