A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2009. We present it here as Major League Baseball commemorates the ...

Players and staff from the Dodgers, including Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and rookie Roki Sasaki, and the Colorado Rockies ...

Seventy-eight years ago on Tuesday, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier in ...

The Kansas House adopted a resolution on April 11, recognizing April 15 as Jackie Robinson Day and honoring his impact on the ...

A shot-riddled historical marker from Jackie Robinson’s hometown of Cairo, Georgia, and the severed cleats from a bronze Robinson statue in Wichita are both on display at the Negro Leagues Baseball ...

Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson day by putting No. 42, Robinson’s jersey number that has been retired for use by all teams, on the back of every player. The Dodgers, now in Los ...

As the White House targets DEI programs, baseball holds its annual recognition of the man who broke the sport’s color barrier ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — League 42’s baseball season kicks off Tuesday, always starting on Jackie Robinson Day. Just before the ...

He did not yield another run for 56 consecutive innings. 1947 — Jackie Robinson became the first black player of the 20th century to sign a major league contract. Robinson agreed a one-year deal ...

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As Jackie Siegel mourns the death of her husband, billionaire timeshare king David Siegel, the “Queen of Versailles” star is also saying goodbye to her little sister, Jessica Mallery ...

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) -- Jackie Robinson Day is April 15, in honor of the day he broke into the major leagues. Bloom Township is taking it a step further, wearing Negro League jerseys all ...