This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Police arrest man in theft of Jackie Robinson statue, no evidence of a hate crime ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact was ... As Sports Illustrated's Bill Nack wrote: "Robinson was the target of racial epithets and flying cleats, of hate letters and death threats, of pitchers throwing ...

The Wichita Kansa Police Department announced that they have arrested a suspect in the theft and destruction of a Jackie Robinson statue ... in a racially motivated hate crime," CBS reports.