Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow and baseball’s First Lady, is celebrating her 100th birthday

Rachel Robinson, Jackie’s widow and baseball’s First Lady, is celebrating her 100th birthday

Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson, celebrates her 100th birthday Tuesday. The former professor, nurse, leader in the civil rights movement and founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation was born Rachel Isum in Pasadena, California in 1922. The Robinsons met in 1940 on the campus of UCLA where Rachel earned her nursing degree in 1945.