A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
Since then, the two have joined forces to release new caps for every MLB team for nearly every occasion: Jackie Robinson Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, the All-Star ...
Talia Shinault said she's been saddened to drive by the League 42 baseball complex and see the empty space where the Jackie Robinson statue has stood. A single mother, Shinault said both of her ...
LOS ANGELES -- Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson ...
Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, has died.
There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
Jones served as the keynote speaker for the 12th Jackie Robinson Boys & Girls Club “A Diamond Affair” fundraising event on Friday night. This event was held on what would have been Robinson’s 106th ...
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.
That told me who he really was.” She said her mother, Ann, and Robinson’s wife, Rachel, became friends. Brown appeared as a pinch hitter in the 1949 World Series and was hitless in two at-bats as ...
Partly that came from his humble British upbringing as the son of a mother who was a teacher and ... His many accolades included the 1984 J. Franklin Robinson Award from the American Academy ...