
Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) was the first African-American Major League Baseball player. He played with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947 to 1956, and he was named the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1949.
Robinson recorded an insert for the first season of Sesame Street where he said the alphabet. (First: Episode 0054)
Robinson was spoofed with the character Jackie Robinsegg on the Bear in the Big Blue House episode "At the Old Bear Game".
Jackie Robinson, watching an episode of Sesame Street with Joan Ganz Cooney