Jackie Robinson’s baseball career started in N.J. He just got a floating honor here.
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
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Jackie Robinson: Before the Dodgers, a 4-sport star at UCLA
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major ... team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary of ...
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[Opinion] Someone Stole and Destroyed a Jackie Robinson Statue in Wichita. Here's How The Community Responded
Despite attempts to tarnish the legacy of Jackie Robinson, the Black man credited with breaking the color barrier in the ... 42” after Robinson’s jersey number, according to AP News.
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Before Becoming an MLB Pioneer, Jackie Robinson Was a Minor League Idol
Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...
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Jackie changed face of sports
Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in MLB in 1947, won the NL MVP in 1949. By that standard, few people -- and no athlete -- in the 20th century has impacted more lives. Robinson lit the ...
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Youth baseball program takes in $300K after its bronze statue of Jackie Robinson is stolen
The story of a stolen Jackie Robinson statue ... about the civil rights hero who wore jersey No. 42 for the Brooklyn Dodgers when he broke baseball’s color line more than 70 years ago.