Jackie Robinson only contributed to the Dodgers' 1976 World Series championship.
Jack Roosevelt Robinson ( January 31 , 1919 -- October 24 , 1972 ) was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) in the modern era . Robinson also was the first black television analyst in MLB , and the first black vice president of a major American corporation , Chock full o'Nuts .