He was a boy of 16 in 1944 when he trotted out one afternoon to play shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers ... Instead of seeing Jackie Robinson at second, or Pee Wee Reese at short, or Duke Snider ...

Jackie Robinson inspired countless Black athletes to pick up a glove and bat to play baseball -- but his impact ... of a dream that began the night Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. "I was ...

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

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

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

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player ... time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the ...

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

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 signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was for $35,000 per year (still just $455,000 in today’s dollars). Sheesh—how ...

Tommy Brown, the last living member of the historic 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers ... came back and was part of the 1947 Dodgers club that featured rookie Jackie Robinson, who broke the color line.

Jackie Robinson was an ... he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in 1972 at the age of ...