Jackie Robinson's Early Life in Pasadena
All Of It - A podcast by WNYC
[ORIGINALLY BROADCAST ON MAY 3, 2022] Inspired by the opening of the Jackie Robinson Museum in New York today, we reair our Full Bio conversation with Kostya Kennedy, author of a new biography about Jackie Robinson, called, True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson. The book comes almost 75 years after Robinson made his professional baseball debut. For this installment, we talk about Robinson's early years growing up California and competing as a collegiate athlete for UCLA.