Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, born Jan. 31, 1919, in Georgia, broke the color line in Major League Baseball when he started on first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. Robinson con… ...

Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Dodgers in 1947. ... serving on the board of the NAACP until 1967. ... Jackie Robinson Movies and Books.

Toward the end of his life, Jackie Robinson faced a decision about whether to share "the behind-the-scenes story" of Freedom National Bank in his autobiography, he wrote. In the book published the ...

CHICAGO — A decade ago, Jackie Robinson West Little League was the team to beat, making it all the way to the Little League World Series Championship in 2014, and inspired thousands to watch and ...

Doug Glanville with Rachel Robinson in Cuba in 2016. Doug Glanville. LIKE MY KIDS, I was introduced to Jackie Robinson's story when I was growing up in New Jersey.His story had always been larger ...

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 ...

Removing Jackie Robinson’s military record puts Donald Trump in the same company with every white ballplayer who ever threw at, spit at or spiked Robinson because they didn’t want to play with ...

Several months later, Jackie Robinson and Rachel Isum were married in Los Angeles, with Downs officiating. Robinson spent the ’46 season with Brooklyn’s top farm club in Montreal.

CHICAGO — A decade ago, Jackie Robinson West Little League was the team to beat, making it all the way to the Little League World Series Championship in 2014, and inspired thousands to watch and ...

In the book published the year of Robinson's untimely death in 1972 from a heart attack at 53 years old and written with a frequent collaborator, Martin Luther King Jr. speechwriter Alfred Duckett, ...

I met his widow, Rachel, for the first time right before the 1991 MLB draft. As a 20-year-old, seeing her took my breath away. When I was playing for the Phillies in 1998, Jackie's daughter ...