Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers ... field after him. In 1981, UCLA opened its new baseball park, Jackie Robinson ...
Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...
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, ...
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first ... having played only shortstop and right field in his prewar tenure.
On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
There are newspaper and magazine articles, Nike commercials, a massive campaign in baseball with every ball and uniform emblazoned with a special Jackie Robinson ... Field became a mixed crowd of ...
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became ... where he competed in baseball, basketball, football and track and field. Robinson arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena ...