every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career in pro baseball, Robinson was the Rookie of the Year, the National League MVP, the NL batting champion ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Jim Becker, a long time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

(WCTV) - The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls ... Braves slugger and a hall-of-fame baseball player. He played for the Braves for his entire 19-year career. “Well it’s good to get them out ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...