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

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport's color barrier in 1947, made several important stops in Louisville and Kentucky. Before he wore No. 42 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson ...

Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck, recognizing the positive impact of baseball integration to the bottom line of baseball, were pioneers in signing stars like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, ...

Tommy Brown, the last living member of the historic 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, died at the age of 97 this week. Brown, who played nine years in Major League Baseball in the 1940s and early ’50s and ...

Jackie Robinson ... Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson ... the Royals were the champs. Robinson spent just the one season in Montreal before breaking baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Jackie Robinson signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn ... the Dodgers until 1952, when he was paid $39,750. But his role in integrating baseball ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on his ...

The Dodgers ... year, Brooklyn general manager Branch Rickey promoted first baseman Jackie Robinson to the team - making him the first Black player in the history of Major League Baseball.