Jackie Robinson grave
Jackie Robinson
Cypress Hills Cemetery
Brooklyn, New York

Inscription on the stone reads:
"A LIFE IS NOT IMPORTANT
EXCEPT IN THE IMPACT IT HAS
ON OTHER LIVES"



Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella
The legendary "Boys of Summer" — The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s.
All five are now in the baseball Hall of Fame.



Robinson steals home in the 1955 World Series against the N.Y. Yankees.
The Dodgers lost that game, but won the Series in seven games.


Jackie Robinson has appeared on U.S. postage stamps three times:


1982

1999

2000