ROBINSON HARD TO FIGURE.Byline: -- Tom Hoffarth Jackie Robinson's No. 42 might be the most well-known number in American sports. But since his Dodgers' career was confined all to Brooklyn, what digits are most attached to him while playing in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, ? At UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , where he attended from 1939 to the spring of 1941, he wore No. 18 in basketball, No. 28 in football and in baseball ... no one's quite sure. He only played baseball one season -- 1940 -- sporting a .097 batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. . There are photos of him in uniform, but nothing to show his number. UCLA's sports information department can't find any evidence of it. The Dodgers, and Baseball Hall of Fame's research department in Cooperstown, N.Y., didn't produce anything. Neither did a dig through the Amateur Athletic Foundation nor the Pasadena City library archives. Employees at the Jackie Robinson Foundation The Jackie Robinson Foundation is a non-profit organization which provides scholarships to minority youths for higher education, as well as preserving the legacy of Baseball Hall of Fame member, Jackie Robinson. finally were asked to quiz Rachel Robinson on it. She replied: I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. . For now, it remains an iconic, and ironic, mystery. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: No one seems to remeber Jackie Robinson's baseball number at UCLA. Photo contributed |
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