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This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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The Jackie Robinson you didn’t know

Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

We all might think we know a lot about Jackie Robinson. OK, maybe not his shoe size, but we know his story as the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball. But Ken Makin today shows us sides of Robinson that we might not have known.

At a time when it seems too easy to pigeonhole people with expectations that are too narrow or just plain wrong, Ken’s column is a great example of digging deeper to see a larger wholeness.

This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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