A Marker Honoring Jackie Robinson Was Defaced. M.L.B. Helped Replace It.

A marker at the birth site of Jackie Robinson was vandalized recently. Major League Baseball has worked with the Georgia Historical Society to replace and protect it.Credit...Brendan Crellin for the Georgia Historical SocietyIn the countryside of southwestern Georgia, roughly two miles north of the Florida border, in a small clearing of trees alongside Route 154, a brick chimney stands alone. An accompanying historical marker notes that the house that once stood there burned down in 1996. It’s all that remains of the place where one of the most important figures in American history was born.

Jackie Robinson grew up in Pasadena, Calif., where his family relocated in 1920 when he was 18 months…