A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers ... Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson ...

Jackie Robinson signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was for $35,000 per year (still just $455,000 in today’s dollars). Sheesh—how ...

Jackie Robinson was an ... he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in 1972 at the age of ...

Robinson’s tremendous baseball skill, strength of character and insistence on equality made him the perfect choice for Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in his search for a ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for a National ...