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 ...
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
Robinson was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas for a bit, and in 2016 the base named its softball field after him. In 1981, UCLA opened its new baseball park, Jackie Robinson Stadium, and a statue of ...
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 ...
Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.
After Robinson’s debut, an almost all-white crowd at Ebbets Field became a mixed crowd of black people ... Baseball should not be proud and satisfied because it is belatedly honoring Jackie Robinson.
This post was updated Feb. 14 at 2:04 a.m. It’s been nearly 12 years since the Bruins’ last trip to the College World Series.
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
In a continued celebration of Black History Month, our first pick this week is Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose ...
"Spring training is the opportunity for families to unite," explained Traer Van Allen, general manager of the minor-league St ...
native Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he stepped onto the field with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man ...
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 ...