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 ...
Spring training is underway for Chicago's baseball teams, both of which have played significant roles in the history of ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... and was hired ...
HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s ... He watched Robinson become the first Black player on a Major League baseball team when editors ...
But today, a massive Black ... white fans and opposing ball players and had done so without appearing meek.” King and Robinson had “a very important relationship,” Eig said. “First of all ...