This week Major League Baseball and the sporting public celebrated the 60th annivsersary of Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson was arguably one of the greatest all around athletes of all time, lettering in four sports in one school year at UCLA. He was an All American football player, led the Pac 8 basketball in scoring two straight years, won the NCAA title in the long jump and was a standout on the UCLA basball team - all in the same year. He left UCLA to joint the army and faced a court martial for refusing to sit in the back of a military bus. Robinson was the perfect person to be the first African American to play Major League baseball. His education and his temperment helped him "turn the other cheek" when he was subjected to taunts from fans, opposing players and even his own teammates. It is still difficult to fathom that there was a time when a ballplayer couldn't stay in the same hotel with his teammates because of the color of his skin. It is with great admiration as well as shame that we look back on this man's accomplishments and what he did for all the great African Americans who followed the incomparable Jackie Roosevelt Robinson