“The last piece of the puzzle was when Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow, told us that I’m just not thrilled with the way Jackie looks,’’ Lutz said. “Could you make him smile a little ...

Joining the fray for at least partial ownership of the contracts is the public, nonprofit Jackie Robinson Foundation, launched in 1973 by Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson, to perpetuate the ...

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 ...