Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for a National ...
It seems as though there’s this agenda to stoke fear,” Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick said.
In 1948, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit the first homerun at Dodgertown, the team's new spring training home in Vero Beach. Batting leadoff, he sent the second pitch of the game deep into ...
Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most — if not all ... It was grueling, with his own teammates campaigning to have him off the team. He ...
Welcome back, Dodger Nation! We're continuing our series highlighting every Dodgers legend enshrined in the Baseball Hall of ...
after the team left the complex in 2008. In 1948, it's where the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson became the first Black player on a big-league roster to play in Florida (in what was a segregated, ...
the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, has died. He was 97.
Let’s pretend it’s April 1947, when then-Brooklyn Dodgers general ... righteousness prevailed when Jackie Robinson debuted with the Dodgers — two years after spending a season with the ...