But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. As the league plainly states on its website, “Every year on April 15, Baseball honors Jackie's legacy by celebrating ...

Major League Baseball annually honors the extraordinary contributions of Jackie Robinson and his critical role in the integration of modern professional sports. This week, active players displayed ...

Police announced Tuesday, Feb. 13, the arrest of a man in the theft of the Jackie Robinson statue that later was found dismantled and burned. (Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle via AP, File) ...

Jackie Robinson, March 4, 1946. ... learning that the latter’s name is Harry Solow. “Jackie don’t have to lay awake nights worrying about ... Published in the print edition of the January 7 ...

No last name, no individuality, just the memory of Robinson. Follow The Sporting News on WhatsApp. ... "What Jackie Robinson did changed the game, and it helped change the country," Kurkjian said.

NEW YORK -- New York City's Department of Transportation swung and missed with a road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that spelled the Baseball Hall of Famer's first name as "Jakie." ...

An article on Robinson’s military career was restored to the Defense Department’s website. It’s a reminder that we can beat back the racist right.

Dodger great Jackie Robinson’s life off the field is explored in book ‘Call Him Jack’ Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long introduce Robinson to middle school readers with “Call Him Jack ...

On Tuesday, as it has since 2004, Major League Baseball is commemorating the day 78 years ago that Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

It was bad enough that several people last week sawed a statue of American icon and baseball legend Jackie Robinson off at the ankles and stole it from the pavilion that bears Robinson’s name in ...

If that's what they're willing to do to Jackie Robinson, it's no wonder they were also willing to do it to the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskegee Airmen. It's no wonder Charles Rogers' Medal of ...

The article, part of a DOD series entitled “Sports Heroes Who Served,” is a celebration of Robinson’s athletic achievements as well as his military service during World War II and his l… ...