Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

In its celebration of Black History Month, MLB Network looks at the careers of Jackie Robinson and Mookie Betts and their ...

Jim Becker, a long time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for ...

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.

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...

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

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 ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...