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After baseball, Robinson became active in business and continued his work as an activist for social change. He worked as an executive for the Chock Full O' Nuts coffee company and restaurant chain, and helped establish the African American-owned and -controlled Freedom Bank. He served on the board of the NAACP until 1967 and was the first African-American to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. In 1972, the Dodgers retired his uniform number of 42. After the retirement of his jersey no other team was allowed to use that number. Jackie Robinson's legacy was memorialized on April 15, 2011, by fans, players and Major League Baseball, marking the 64th anniversary of the Hall of Famer breaking baseball's color barrier. All the teams that play that day wear number 42 that day to remember Jackie and everything he did. On October 24,1972 in Stamford Connecticut Jackie Robinson died from heart probelms at the age of 53.