BASEBALL PLAYER

Jackie Robinson

1919 - 1972

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Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers signing Robinson heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jackie Robinson has received more than 19,675,784 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Jackie Robinson is the 3rd most popular baseball player, the 1,170th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,141st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Baseball Player.

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. He was also the first black man to win the Rookie of the Year award, and the first black man to win the Most Valuable Player award.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

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  • 5.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Jackie Robinson ranks 3 out of 91. Before him are Babe Ruth, and Joe DiMaggio. After him are Sadaharu Oh, Lou Gehrig, Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Reggie Jackson, Alexander Cartwright, Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, and Ichiro Suzuki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Jackie Robinson ranks 40. Before him are César Manrique, James M. Buchanan, James Lovelock, Mordechai Anielewicz, Jennifer Jones, and Gillo Pontecorvo. After him are Pete Seeger, Georges Duby, Charles Sweeney, Abdel Hakim Amer, Godfrey Hounsfield, and Elisabeth Volkenrath. Among people deceased in 1972, Jackie Robinson ranks 35. Before him are Ghassan Kanafani, Georg von Békésy, Emil Maurice, Henri Coandă, Margaret Rutherford, and Ludwig von Bertalanffy. After him are Antonio Segni, Ferdinand Čatloš, Said bin Taimur, Lale Andersen, Mahalia Jackson, and Fredric Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jackie Robinson ranks 1,170 out of 20,380. Before him are C. Wright Mills (1916), Dennis Rodman (1961), Jerry West (1938), Robert S. Mulliken (1896), Roy O. Disney (1893), and Susan Wojcicki (1968). After him are Noah Gordon (1926), Liliʻuokalani (1838), Clyde Drexler (1962), Alonzo Church (1903), William Gibson (1948), and Gene Sharp (1928).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Jackie Robinson ranks 3. Before him are Babe Ruth (1895), and Joe DiMaggio (1914). After him are Lou Gehrig (1903), Hank Aaron (1934), Cy Young (1867), Reggie Jackson (1946), Alexander Cartwright (1820), Ty Cobb (1886), Ted Williams (1918), Mickey Mantle (1931), and Barry Bonds (1964).

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