Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Clyde King Signed Baseball.

Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, and Clyde King are linked through the Brooklyn Dodgers organization at the precise moment it was becoming both a baseball powerhouse and a symbol of social change. Robinson, who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947 and remained a core Dodger through the mid-1950s, helped define the club’s identity with his elite play and historic presence, while Snider emerged alongside him as the team’s premier slugging center fielder and clubhouse ally during the early integration years. Clyde King, a Dodger pitcher whose career included multiple Brooklyn stints and whose later decades in baseball made him a notable long-service figure, overlapped with Robinson in the Dodgers’ wartime-to-postwar transition and is documented as having played with him. Taken together, the three represent different layers of the same celebrated Dodger era: Robinson as the transformational star and civil-rights pioneer, Snider as the iconic Hall of Fame teammate who helped power the club’s “Boys of Summer” ascendancy, and King as part of the supporting pitching cast within that shared Brooklyn milieu.