There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

What’s your definition of work? Ask the kids and they might say homework or chores, maybe a part-time job for teens. Today’s ...

Bob Uecker took a radio gig with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1971. He stayed in that job the rest of his career, becoming a ...

Robin Yount and Paul Molitor as well as the permanently retired number of Jackie Robinson. The Brewers further honored Uecker on Aug. 31, 2012, with a statue dedication outside Miller Park ...

He made a bases-loaded, game-saving shoetop catch off Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson in the seventh game ... 1950 and 1957 they failed to take the American League pennant was 1954, when Martin was ...

Instead, Kane Robinson headlines the movie ... the 1972 Uruguayan plane crash that has become famous (and infamous) for the lengths that the people on board had to go to in order to pull through.

According to Moore’s Society for American Baseball Research biography, penned by Sports Reference director ... Wilkinson’s son, Richard, said Moore was every bit as good as Jackie Robinson. When a ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was ... And in 1946, Robinson’s Royals of the International League defeated the Louisville Colonels of the American Association in six games. The people of Montreal ...

Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...