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A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...
MLB is right to celebrate its most impactful participant, an American civil rights hero whose courage should always be taught.
The league has come relatively far since 1987, when Dodgers GM Al Campanis found he couldn’t use his late friend Robinson ... last well into adulthood. Jackie Robinson Day: MLB in crosshairs ...
In the wake of efforts to diminish parts of Jackie Robinson’s legacy, Sonny Sachdeva speaks with Bob Kendrick about why we ...
Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made his way to Dodger Stadium in a wheelchair to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day on Tuesday.
In the nearly three decades since Major League Baseball has turned April 15 into a de facto industry holiday, there have been years in which celebrating Jackie ... his late friend Robinson as ...
And my friend, the great John Jordan ‘Buck’ O'Neil, the founder of this Museum, would say that we had “become acclimated to segregation.” But not Jackie Robinson. You see, Jackie was from ...
Jackie Robinson was 1947's Rookie of the Year. He also won Rookie of the Year in 1947 with a batting average of .297, 175 hits, 12 home runs, and 48 runs batted in. 16. He was close friends with ...
By seeking to ban conversations about race in the military, Trump erases the histories of American heroes like Sgt. Rodney ...
Nathan MacKinnon spent some time on the ice Tuesday sliding pucks over to his old friend and longtime captain Gabriel Landeskog for shots on goal. Landeskog rejoined the Colorado Avalanche following ...