LOS ANGELES -- Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color barrier on Monday. Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, ...

Jackie Robinson's entry into the major leagues was not merely a personal achievement; it was the culmination of a strategic vision orchestrated by Branch Rickey, the president and general manager of ...

Melany Vasquez didn’t know much about Jackie Robinson. The eighth grader at Collins Middle School in Salem, Mass., had heard his name, knew he was a famous baseball player, knew he was important, but ...

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947, but it wasn’t until three seasons after Robinson last played that major league baseball became fully integrated. That happened on July 21, 1959, ...

Jackie Robinson Day is one of the most iconic days in all of sports. It reminds us of the courage that Jack Roosevelt Robinson possessed as he became the first player to break the color barrier when ...