A new book examines the baseball great's politics and the pressure he was put under by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey.
The City of Pasadena Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department and the Pasadena Public Library are inviting the ...
The game itself is largely forgotten. There is no video, and even those who played in the game don’t remember most of the ...
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On April 15, 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson made history when he became the first African-American player in the Major Leagues. In his 10 seasons with the Dodgers, Robinson won a ...
In 1946, Branch Rickey’s Brooklyn Dodgers sent Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe to their minor-league affiliate in Nashua, New Hampshire, in a deliberate move. The Dodgers wanted a community open to ...
Hip-Hop and baseball have always shared a blue-collar heartbeat—built on discipline, legacy, and surviving pressure when the lights burn hottest. That’s the spirit behind 42, the new single linking ...
The most famous uniform number in baseball, not to mention all of sports, is 42, and with good reason. It is the number Jackie Robinson wore when he made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, ...
Possible human skeletal remains were found on the side of the Jackie Robinson Highway just steps from a Cypress Hill Cemetery, according to the NYPD. The grisly discovery was made by Department of ...
On June 24, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke from third base and stole home plate for the first time in his Major League career. The exhilarating play additionally was the first stolen base of Robinson’s ...
An unidentified employee of the Downtown Development Authority takes a peek of a mural of Minnie Miñoso behind the plastic that covers a swastika. Next to it is a mural of Jackie Robinson. The murals ...