"I can't believe it has been 50 years," Robinson said recently. "Sometimes it seems like yesterday; other times, it's like 1966 never happened. That year was a dream for me. I'd been here since 1955 and it completed my baseball life. The ultimate is to win the World Series. Then you say to yourself, 'Hey, if I never do it again, so what? We were the best in the world for a year.'"