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 ...

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

Eugene Robinson writes a column on politics and culture and hosts an online chat with readers. In a three-decade career at The Washington Post, Robinson has been city hall reporter, city editor ...

Allen will be posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27. Being included in the fraternity of ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...

Days after Billy Wagner was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Houston Astros are planning to retire Wagner’s number.

On Oct. 28, 1962, the three major television networks interrupted their scheduled programs to broadcast a special report on ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest Georgia town to observe the iconic pioneer’s birthdate while further aiding a ...

Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers, every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career ...

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 ...

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 ...