When Jackie Robinson gets a draft notice in the mail, he doesn't explicitly say what it is. He only says it begins with the word "Greetings". In 1950 audiences would have remembered that World War II draft notices began that way. It was a popular source of dark humor at the time.
On April 19, 2005, 20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film, donating a portion of the proceeds to the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a charity that benefits education for gifted students.
Dick Williams, the Hall of Fame manager of the "Impossible Dream" Boston Red Sox, appears as the pitcher and the second baseman for Jersey City in Jackie's first game with the Montreal Royals.
According to TCM, none of the major studios showed interest in the film, so it was produced by the independent Jewel Pictures. This apparently was the only film Jewel produced.