Every year, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson ... stories of the Negro League are often overlooked, dismissed, or flat-out forgotten. Most people have heard of Robinson.

The bronze cleats that were cut from a Jackie Robinson statue last month will be donated to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

If Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson wanted to live comfortably in the white major leagues and Negro Leagues, respectively, then baseball might still be segregated. But they were not satisfied, and ...

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... Robinson received an honorable discharge from the Army. In 1945, he played shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro League.

MLB // 7 months ago Negro Leagues stat integration makes Josh ... ago Police in Kansas arrest man in theft, destruction of Jackie Robinson statue Police in Wichita, Kan., say they have arrested ...

"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.