Remembering Jackie Robinson & the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers

(Editor’s note: To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the legendary Jackie Robinson’s birth, we decided to put this story together about all the greatness surrounding the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers. There was some previous TBPC content used in this story.)

While I was never exceptionally familiar with the history of the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers, I couldn’t help but start digging into the history books a little during the past few seasons, when the modern-day Boys in Blue were sometimes compared to the exalted squad from more than 65 years ago.

Specifically, when all the smoke cleared on the 2017 season, the team finished with a 104-58 record, just one win shy of the 1953 Dodgers’ all-time record.…