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 ...
Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers, every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career ...
This year is the 20th anniversary of the first Jackie Robinson Day across MLB, where all teams pay tribute to Robinson at games on April 15. The commemoration has gone from one player asking to ...
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...
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 ...
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
The four tennis courts at Jackie Robinson Park Playground have been locked to the public since December, according to Brooklynite and tennis player Kenny Bruno – nearly a year after the ...
Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name ... where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where Robinson -- a 27-year old World War II veteran -- led the Royals to what was called ...