"My brother and I were the only kids around there," said Bates. "They needed someone to be bat boy that day." The now 90-year-old remembers being Jackie Robinson's first bat boy. A pro baseball ...

When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother, "If you want to get closer to heaven, visit California," she took her five children West in 1920. Jackie Robinson was the first to letter in ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

However, that has not always been the case. Take for instance Mack Robinson, older brother of sports legend and activist Jackie Robinson, and silver medal-winner, finishing a close second behind Jesse ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

“More Like Jackie” is a new documentary that explores how Wichita came together and persevered after the shocking theft and destruction of a Jackie Robinson statue at the League 42 baseball field.