Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...
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The same year Jackie Robinson integrated the International League, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella were being tested -- and ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
"Spring training is the opportunity for families to unite," explained Traer Van Allen, general manager of the minor-league St ...
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.
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 ...