Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ... He promptly batted .297 with 12 home runs and 29 steals to win the National League Rookie of the Year award.

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

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the ...

Darryl Strawberry was at Citi Field for the Mets’ Black Legacy Game, a game that honors the history of players like Jackie ...

LOS ANGELES — The 78th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of Major League Baseball’s color barrier centered on the Los Angeles Dodgers, as it always does. But on Tuesday, the league ...

April 15th was Tax Day, but it was also Jackie Robinson Day. In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager and President Branch Rickey hired Robinson to be the first black major league player ...