Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

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 ...

But one key piece of baseball history is off the market right now and is instead in the hands of U.S. marshals: the contract signed by Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball’s color barrier. L.A. Times ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck, recognizing the positive impact of baseball integration to the bottom line of baseball, were pioneers in signing stars like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, ...

Friday’s fundraiser happened on Jackie Robinson’s birthday in his hometown of Cairo. Chipper Jones is a former Atlanta Braves slugger and a hall-of-fame baseball player. He played for the ...

While Jackie Robinson is often celebrated as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, history tells a different story.

This post was updated Feb. 14 at 2:04 a.m. It’s been nearly 12 years since the Bruins’ last trip to the College World Series.

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.