about his legacy and how few AA players there are today is that in my opinion, if jackie were alive today, he would not be a baseball player, but rather a football player.
He was a great tailback (and 4 sport star I believe) at the college level, and if the NFL was the behemoth that it was today back then I suspect he would have played football.
We'll never know, of course, but I think it probably would have gone down that way. And this isn't baseball's fault and there is little to knothing they can do about it.
Just my thought- appologize if it has been covered before.
