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