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A fraught but often-overlooked episode near the end of the retired baseball legend's life carries lessons and inspiration for financial professionals.

These days, sinking boats to get rid of them would obviously never fly due to environmental concerns, but 100 years ago? Psshhhh.

These days, sinking boats to get rid of them would obviously never fly due to environmental concerns, but 100 years ago? Psshhhh.

These days, sinking boats to get rid of them would obviously never fly due to environmental concerns, but 100 years ago? Psshhhh.

He fed material to gossip columns, buttered up reporters and banged on typewriters from the heyday of the Copacabana to the rise of reality TV.

The coastal megacity of Pakistan, Karachi is facing an acute shortage of burial spaces as the necropolis is chock-full.

Seventy-five years ago Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Fifty years ago he returned to Dodger Stadium, a thaw in a frosty relationship.

“True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson,” by Kostya Kennedy, chronicles Robinson’s life on and off the field.

The exhibition at the Starrett-Lehigh building in Chelsea features more than 200 artworks and artifacts from the collection of the artist’s estate, most of which have never been seen.

Robinson had a strong bond with New York’s large Jewish community, particularly in Brooklyn, where Jews were half of the residents of the city’s largest borough.