But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie Robinson ... 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 played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

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

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with ... to reflect the nation as a whole. After Robinson’s debut, an almost all-white crowd at Ebbets Field became a mixed crowd of black ...

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 ...

The big picture: Robinson first suited up for the Triple-A Montreal Royals at the ballpark on March 17, 1946, making him the first Black American to play in modern white organized baseball.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League ... shown below in a picture from the L.A. Times, which called it a "certain touchdown ...