Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with ... to reflect the nation as a whole. After Robinson’s debut, an almost all-white crowd at Ebbets Field became a mixed crowd of black ...
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
Perhaps the most notable such series took place in 1946, when Jackie ... of fans chased Robinson through the streets as he attempted to make it back to the team hotel. "It was probably the only day in ...
On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
Dodgers great Jackie ... Robinson’s Royals of the International League defeated the Louisville Colonels of the American Association in six games. The people of Montreal defended their Black ...
January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...
CAIRO, Ga. (WCTV) - The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker. Friday’s fundraiser happened on ...
Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson and his legacy. Robinson, the first Black player in the major leagues when he debuted for ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.
HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big ... He watched Robinson become the first Black player on a Major League baseball team when editors sent ...