Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport's color barrier in 1947, made several important stops in Louisville and Kentucky. Before he wore No. 42 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers ... Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully integrated Major League Baseball.

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

New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

Tommy Brown, the last living member of the historic 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, died at the age of 97 this week. Brown, who played nine years in Major League Baseball in the 1940s and early ’50s and ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson ... the Royals were the champs. Robinson spent just the one season in Montreal before breaking baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Jackie Robinson ... Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in ...

Jackie Robinson signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn ... the Dodgers until 1952, when he was paid $39,750. But his role in integrating baseball ...