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 ...
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 ...
Lyle Krall once walked past Jackie Robinson as he sat in a hotel lobby and wrote in his journal during spring training. It’s ...
His #51 jersey will be retired in ... Griffey Jr. (#24), Edgar Martinez (#11) and Jackie Robinson (#42). Suzuki will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York ...
The museum space is the former childhood home of Terry’s relative, Earnie Shavers, a heavyweight boxer best known for his hard-hitting punch. He grew up to become a champion fighter, brave enough to ...
Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary ... we look back on everything that Jackie Robinson meant to UCLA, the game of baseball, and the world we live in today.
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 ...
Fresh off his election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his final year on the ballot, Billy Wagner will receive the ...
Actor Minnie Driver turns 55 and musician/actor Justin Timberlake turns 44, among the famous birthdays for Jan. 31.
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