New York Daily News published this on April 16, 1997. He was introduced by Acting Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who announced that Robinson’s No. 42 would be retired by all Major League ...

Every year, Major League Baseball honors this day as the anniversary of April 15, 1947, which is the day that Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier.

As they took the field against the Twins Thursday afternoon, the Red Sox joined the other 29 major league teams in honoring Jackie Robinson. For a day, everyone wore Robinson’s No. 42 ...

NEW YORK — Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson didn’t rate a headline in most of America’s mainstream newspapers the day he broke baseball’s color barrier a half-century ago, but the ...

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There’s a scene in “42” in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies’ manager. It ...

The league has celebrated its annual Jackie Robinson Day since 2004. Jackie Robinson Jersey: Why MLB Players Wear Number 42. In 1997, Major League Baseball retired Robinson's number across the league.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies ...

First and foremost, happy Jackie Robinson Day. On this day in 1947, Robinson made his MLB debut and broke baseball’s color barrier. Every April 15, all MLB players and coaches wear 42 in ...

For Jackie Robinson Day, all players across baseball will don the number 42. One former member of the Oakland Athletics, Dave Henderson, wore the number in his playing days as a tribute.