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

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

Lyle Krall once walked past Jackie Robinson as he sat in a hotel lobby and wrote in his journal during spring training. It’s ...

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. He was 98. He ...

The UCLA Bruins baseball club is geared up and ready for their first season in their new conference as they kick off their ...

Indiana teenager John Miley began recording radio sports broadcasts. There are now more than 44,000 of them in his collection.

Dodgers great Jackie ... Robinson wrote in “My Own Story,” his autobiography published in 1972. "Greeting us warmly, they let us know how they felt. ... All through that first game [at home ...

Jim Becker, AP Reporter Who Covered Jackie Robinson and an Underdog ... and was hired to start the next day. He watched Robinson become the first Black player on a Major League baseball team ...

Brooklyn native Tommy Brown took his first major league at-bat at just ... He was the last living member of the 1947 Dodgers, Jackie Robinson's color barrier-breaking Brooklyn squad.

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 ...

Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...