Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

But before Robinson was breaking records and barriers ... In 1981, UCLA opened its new baseball park, Jackie Robinson Stadium, and a statue of him can be found near the entrance.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

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

A GoFundMe page set up on behalf of the League 42, the youth baseball program in Wichita, Kansas that owns the statue, launched days before pieces of the bronze Jackie Robinson were found burned.

This was eight years before Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of ... Baseball should not be proud and satisfied because it is belatedly honoring Jackie Robinson. But baseball is not the only sport ...

Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...

Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...

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 ...

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 ...