Every April 15, MLB pays homage to one of its most important players with Jackie Robinson Day in honor of the Los Angeles Dodgers legend. Players, managers and coaches on all 30 MLB teams will wear ...
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, ...
Today, and every April 15 since 2004, Major League Baseball has honored the legacy of Jackie Robinson. After making his Major League debut in 1947 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he would go on to play 10 ...
At baseball fields across the country on Tuesday, major league players wore No. 42 jerseys as a way to honor the legacy of Jackie Robinson. At Texas, Oliver Service did the same during a game against ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Seventy-eight years ago on Tuesday, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Appropriately, April 15, Jackie ...
On Jackie Robinson Day in 2022, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “What he did was incredible, but we’ve got to do him right by keep going.” On Jackie Robinson Day in 2023, Roberts said, ...
A tradition unlike any other. The famous words uttered by legendary commentator Jim Nantz regarding The Masters each year could apply to Major League Baseball as well. This is a sport with some rich ...
LOS ANGELES (AP)-- There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' ...