Did You Know Jackie Robinson Has Connecticut Ties?

This week commemorates the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in professional baseball. On April 15, 1947, Robinson made baseball history and emerged as a civil rights hero when he took the field as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever altering the game.

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Robinson's impact on America echoes through time, and his baseball career is the stuff of legend, making him one of the most iconic athletes in American sport. While his life, words, and actions are well-documented, there is an aspect of #42's life you may not know.

Robinson's Stamford address was 95 Cascade Road where he owned a four-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot Colonial home on 1.4 acres of land. Below is a picture of the home that still stands today.

There is also park in Stamford named after Jackie Robinson, situated on Richmond Hill Avenue. Robinson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Every year on April 15th, all MLB players don the No. 42 in his honor, and his number was retired league-wide in 1997.

As a baseball kid growing up, I played, followed my Yankees, and collected baseball cards, so I was fairly well-versed in Jackie's history. However, I never knew he lived in Connecticut. That's a pretty cool piece of trivia I plan on sharing like a I'm a historian. I will say it as if I knew it all along. I expect you to do the same.

I cannot imagine what it must have been like for Jackie Robinson. He must have endured brutal emotional trauma in an effort to blaze a new trail for those who came after him.