Tributes to a loving mam are among those being paid in The Chronicle deaths and funeral announcements this week. Announcing the passing of a loved one in local news media is a long standing tradition ...

Robinson and his wife, Rachel, lived in Montreal during the 1946 season, his lone year in the Triple-A International League before he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

*More than a decade after the Jackie Robinson West controversy dominated headlines that never quite got it right, the players ...