A Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Cubs and Phillies has ...

While regarded in the hierarchy of baseball immortality, this day in 2015 saw the Los Angeles Dodgers unveil details of a Jackie Robinson statue that would be installed at Dodger Stadium during ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League ...

Robinson’s tremendous baseball skill, strength of character and insistence on equality made him the perfect choice for Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in his search for a ...

"Jackie Robinson ... the course of a country. Baseball might only be a game, but in the area of black and white, it often is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 came a year before ...

Jackie Robinson ... with 37 stolen bases. Robinson would not receive his first raise from the Dodgers until 1952, when he was paid $39,750. But his role in integrating baseball would forever ...

On Jan. 8, 1956, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Jackie ... Robinson’s last playing professional baseball after spending 10 seasons with the Dodgers.

But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... Baseball might only be a game, but in the area of black and white, it often is a leader. Robinson's debut for the Dodgers in 1947 ...