The Alabama city that produced five Hall of Famers celebrates its baseball heritage with new statues. The moment was made ...

Already a military hero by the age of 20, where else could Audie Murphy go but into a Hollywood movie career? One hundred years after he was born, we remember an actor who – although plagued by PTSD ...

At age 99 I recognize the surprising part the Brooklyn Dodgers played as a sustaining element in a lifetime of confronting ...

Childhood Jack Roosevelt Robinson, best known as Jackie Robinson, was born on January 31, 1919, near Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children born to sharecroppers Jerry and Mallie ...

Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Seventy-eight years later, as MLB celebrated Jackie Robinson Day, Murphy spoke of the meaning of ...

Tuesday, April 15, was Jackie Robinson Day. Just like it is every year in Major League Baseball. As every active player in the league donned the No. 42, you couldn’t help but feel like something ...

LOS ANGELES -- Jackie Robinson was the first to break baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago Tuesday. His legacy continues to inspire people inside the major leagues ...

Robinson’s 102-year-old widow marked the anniversary at the Jackie Robinson Museum in Brooklyn with Commissioner Rob Manfred. “She is out looking great and greeting everyone,” Pankey ...

Robinson, meanwhile, was Rookie of the Year in 1947 and the NL MVP two years later. In his 10 years in the majors, he was either an All-Star or an MVP candidate, or both, in all but one season.

But standing up for Jackie Robinson should not be a subversive or controversial stance, especially for the Dodgers and MLB. Robinson is more than a baseball icon. He’s an American hero.

CHICAGO | It was 1951, and Nathan "Sonny" Weston was a 19-year-old recent graduate of Bloom Township staring down his big break: an invitation to spring training with the Brooklyn ...

Robinson, who served in the United States Army during World War II as a second lieutenant in the 761st Tank Battalion, went on to break MLB’s color barrier as the first Black player in 1947.