The Chicago Cubs will mark Jackie Robinson Day next Thursday at Wrigley Field to honor the legacy of an American trailblazer. Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools students, many of whom don't ...

Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

Jackie Robinson was starring on the baseball field ... across state lines. In 1912, the Chicago police arrested him for violating the new Mann Act, a “white slave” trafficking law to prevent ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

The Cubs will also celebrate Jackie Robinson Day at Wrigley Field when ... First Pitch Thread and the overflow thread in the box marked “Chicago Cubs Game Threads” at the bottom of the front ...