As Sports Illustrated's Bill Nack wrote: "Robinson was the target ... felt the sting of a town's prejudice. Jackie found his home on the playground, playing marbles, soccer, dodgeball, tennis ...

Jackie Robinson is celebrated as the trailblazer who shattered racial barriers in baseball, becoming the first African American to play in the ... excelled in multiple sports during his time ...

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 ... After high school, Robinson enrolled at Pasadena Junior College — now Pasadena City College — and was a four-sport star in baseball, football, basketball and track ...

A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for ... it went to Robinson. Ultimately Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie ...

Undoubtedly, if there is one person in sports history that deserves ... Naturally, tensions between different groups develop and relations deteriorate. If Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson wanted to ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

Jackie Robinson (the fastest back on the coast), stationed just outside right end. He's the man in motion." In the win over Washington, Robinson was involved in a play Oakland Tribune sports ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

"Jackie Robinson ... sports at UCLA. They moved into a working-class neighborhood in Pasadena, where they felt the sting of a town's prejudice. Jackie found his home on the playground, playing ...