Puzzle for April 16, 2010

Yesterday was the 63rd anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Robinson, then 28, was the first African-American, playing for the then Brooklyn Dodgers.

Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson's groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City's Shea Stadium.

Robinson was born January 31, 1919 and died October 24, 1972. How old was he when he died? How old would he have been when his number was retired? How would he be today?

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