In this remarkable audio artifact from 1960, we hear the voice of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, as he sits down with Branch Rickey, the visionary executive who signed him. By 1960, Robinson had retired from baseball and was already a civil rights leader, while Rickey had left the Brooklyn Dodgers and was serving as an executive for the Pittsburgh Pirates.Robinson's career was groundbreaking, not just for his exceptional talent, but for the societal  ...