Lessons of Arthur Ashe from the Post

On the idea of naming the new Mets sta dium after Jackie Robinson, former Mayor David Dinkins describes himself as "delighted, needless to say - and not just because I am a Jackie fan."

Dinkins cites precedent - Arthur Ashe Stadium at the National Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens.

That venue honors the first black man to win both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Plus, following his retirement in 1980, Arthur Ashe was a prominent social leader and educator. After contracting AIDS via tainted blood during a heart operation, Ashe became an advocate for research and chronicled his struggle in a memoir released shortly after his death in 1993...