A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson and his legacy. Robinson, the first Black player in the major leagues when he debuted for the ...
Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...
Perhaps Horrell, the new UCLA coach, was playing coy, but despite Robinson's accolades, prior to the game, the L.A. Times reported, "It seems pretty well established that neither Jackie Robinson ...
Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
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.
While Jackie Robinson is often celebrated as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, history tells a different story.
More Bettmann/Getty Images Robinson joined a Dodgers club that ... but they got a petition against playing with Jackie. They came to me and said to sign it, but I never signed it.
He then reported for camp and competed for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully integrated Major League ...
Originally named Daytona City Island Ballpark, the field opened for play in 1914 and is the oldest ballpark still used in Minor League Baseball. It is here that in 1946 Jackie Robinson broke the ...