A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
Robinson refused to give in, defying Jim Crow segregation in Pasadena and, as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, standing up for his rights when ordered to move to the back of a military bus.
It’s not surprising then, that baseball legend Jackie Robinson has more statues in ... many institutions from public schools to the US military had yet to be desegregated, he brought America ...
Brown would eventually report for his own military duty before being discharged ... time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
An order from a federal judge to lockdown UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium is set to go ... is reached to use them in a way that benefits military veterans, for which they were originally intended.
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 ...
FOX 35's John Brown and Garrett Wymer break down four big stories to know on Friday, January 31 as recovery efforts continue ...