Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers star since breaking into Major League baseball in 1947, is shown with his wife, Rachel, and their four-year-old son, Jackie Jr., in their home in Stamford, Conn ...

Jackie Robinson, who has retired ... gracious acceptance speech at his Hall of Fame induction in 1962 was an exception — and he refused to attend old-timers’ games so often that teams stopped ...

The sanitized version of the Jackie Robinson story goes something like this: He was a remarkable athlete who, with his unusual level of self-control, was the perfect person to break baseball’s ...

See Jackie Robinson's life in photos. ... "I never thought at all that I would have this wonderful honor coming to me so early in my lifetime," he said in his speech.

June 6 - Miami murals honoring baseball trailblazers Jackie Robinson and Minnie Minoso were defaced with swastikas and racist slurs this week. The vandalism in the city's Overtown neighborhood was ...

Murals honoring baseball trailblazers Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso in Miami’s historic Overtown neighborhood were defaced this week with racist graffiti, including swastikas and a slur ...

Portrait of the marshalls of the Youth March for Integrated Schools demonstration in Washington DC, October 25, 1958. Among those pictured are American baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919 ...