Every year, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson ... stories of the Negro League are often overlooked, dismissed, or flat-out forgotten. Most people have heard of Robinson.

It seems as though there’s this agenda to stoke fear,” Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick said.

The remaining pieces of a vandalized Jackie Robinson statue were given to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City on Thursday. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum accepted the bronze cleats ...

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... Robinson received an honorable discharge from the Army. In 1945, he played shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro League.

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

Beyond that prestigious honor as the only jersey number retired across MLB, Robinson is celebrated each year on Jackie Robinson ... in 1945 in the Negro Leagues for the Kansas City Monarchs.

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that of baseball. He was a transforming agent and in the face of such hostility and such meanness and violence, he did it with such amazing dignity.

At least back then, righteousness prevailed when Jackie Robinson debuted with the Dodgers — two years after spending a season with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues — and changed ...