Long before Jackie Robinson, Black jockeys dominated and changed horse racing
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
LA Times Today: Man used Jackie Robinson contracts to steal millions from investors. Then he fled to Russia seeking asylum
But one key piece of baseball history is off the market right now and is instead in the hands of U.S. marshals: the contract signed by Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball’s color barrier. L.A. Times ...
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Newcombe and Campanella broke ground in Minor Leagues
The same year Jackie Robinson integrated the International League, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella were being tested -- and ...
Post office supervisor steals mailed checks, gold coins worth $300,000, feds say
Joivian Tjuana Hayes, 36, of Compton, stole more than $300,000 in checks, postal money orders, gold coins and collectibles ...