A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers ... Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson ...

Jackie Robinson signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was for $35,000 per year (still just $455,000 in today’s dollars). Sheesh—how ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player ... time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the ...

Jackie Robinson was an ... he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in 1972 at the age of ...

New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

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

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most — if not all — of you are surrounded by homage to the break-down of the color barrier in baseball.

Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for a National ...