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

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

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

Residents say these tennis courts need more “love.” Longtime tennis players at a public Bedford-Stuyvesant park say the ...

Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson and his legacy. Robinson, the first Black player in the major leagues when he debuted for the ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

"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.

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental events in history, died today in Hawaii, according to family and friends.

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...