Chock full and Jackie Robinson

Chock full o’Nuts is marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball with commemorative cans and a donation from profits to the Jackie Robinson Foundation.

Robinson made his first appearance as a Brooklyn Dodger on April 15, 1947. After retiring from baseball, he became vice president of personnel for Chock full o'Nuts in 1957, the first Black vice president of a major American corporation.

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