Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball ... has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the ...

But one doesn’t need to look any further than 1947 --when Dodgers rookie Jackie Robinson drove pitchers wild with his daring efforts on the basepaths -- to see how much more aggressive Negro League ...

He loved his stars, but also those who never rounded a base, sparing time for every groundskeeper as if they were a Gehrig or Greenberg, and every rookie as if he were Ruth or Jackie Robinson ... of ...

The Astros announced on Tuesday that Wagner, the team’s all-time saves leader, will have his jersey number ... Jimmy Wynn (No. 24), Jeff Bagwell (No. 5) and Craig Biggio (No. 7). Major League Baseball ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

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 ...

CAIRO, Ga. (WCTV) - The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker. Friday’s fundraiser happened on ...