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Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

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

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before ... II veteran -- led the Royals to what was called the “Junior World Series,” or “Little World Series." It pit two top minor ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and ... the NL batting champion, a World Series champion, a six-time All-Star and twice led the league in stolen bases. He was inducted into the Baseball ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S.

In 1948, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers ... Since the last out of the World Series each October, ballplayers, coaches and fans eagerly await the first pitch of the 15-team Florida ...

King watched Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the New York Yankees in the World Series on a television at (minister Howard) Thurman’s house. Thurman spoke often of his 1935 trip to ...

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... Soon Becker began receiving a series of increasingly alarmed cables from AP editors ...