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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 18,900,274 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 47 in 2019). Jackie Robinson is the 3rd most popular baseball player, the 1,141st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,080th 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)

  • 46

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  • 2.74

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  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Jackie Robinson ranks 3 out of 74. Before him are Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio. After him are Lou Gehrig, Sadaharu Oh, Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Alexander Cartwright, and Roberto Clemente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Jackie Robinson ranks 39. Before him are Matilde Camus, Godfrey Hounsfield, Mordechai Anielewicz, Joseph Murray, Daniel Bell, and Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. After him are Hermine Braunsteiner, Pete Seeger, Oleg Penkovsky, Iris Murdoch, César Manrique, and Chavela Vargas. Among people deceased in 1972, Jackie Robinson ranks 31. Before him are Max Theiler, Heinrich Lübke, Asta Nielsen, Georg von Békésy, Ferdinand Čatloš, and Margaret Rutherford. After him are Emil Maurice, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Henri Coandă, Karl Silberbauer, Natalie Clifford Barney, and Fredric Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jackie Robinson ranks 1,141 out of 18,182. Before him are Marcheline Bertrand (1950), Robert Bruce Merrifield (1921), Donna Leon (1942), Sam Walton (1918), Martha Washington (1731), and Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925). After him are Arthur Ashe (1943), James Cagney (1899), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Sylvia Earle (1935), Neil Diamond (1941), and James Brolin (1940).

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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), Ted Williams (1918), Ty Cobb (1886), Mickey Mantle (1931), Alexander Cartwright (1820), Yogi Berra (1925), and Willie Mays (1931).

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