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Jackie Robinson

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Jackie Robinson

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Auction Date:2011 Aug 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
TLS, one page, 7.25 x 10.5, personal letterhead, March 18, 1968. Robinson writes Irene Walbrook of the Bronx regarding his troubled son. In full: “Your letter was so encouraging at a time when we are facing a most serious family problem. It is a comfort to know that people who are not personally involved care and we are grateful to you. We know the only real solution is the love and understanding that we give our son, and it is our intention to give everything we have to pull him through this critical condition. I have faith that our family ties are strong and that with God's help we will come through this crisis. Again our thanks. You will never know how much your interest means to our family.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.

Robinson’s role as a baseball hero wasn’t nearly as important to him as his role as a father—a part he perhaps felt he had failed in as his namesake son, Jack Jr., faced a personal crisis in 1968. For the elder Robinson—the Hall of Famer who single-handedly stopped baseball’s segregation, the man who dedicated his post-playing career to countless civil rights causes, the business owner who established a Harlem bank to aid African American clients—found himself unable to ease the struggles of his own flesh and blood. “We are facing a most serious family problem,” Robinson notes here as his son, already suffering deep bouts of depression and now a man wounded both emotionally and physically by the Vietnam War, was facing drug addiction and a possible jail sentence. A seemingly insurmountable task, Robinson never wavered from the dedication to his family, pledging that “it is our intention to give everything we have to pull him through this critical condition. I have faith that our family ties are strong and that with God's help we will come through this crisis.” His prediction was correct, as his son eventually became a counselor at the same facility that helped him break his addiction—only to die in a 1971 car crash. Deeply personal correspondence from a man who changed the face of baseball.
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