Before he broke barriers and records with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was a four-sport phenom at UCLA, starring in football, basketball, track and field, and of course, baseball.

1947 — Jackie Robinson became the first black player of the 20th century to sign a major league contract. Robinson agreed a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League ...

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A week after removing then restoring an article about Jackie Robinson from the Pentagon's website, the Trump administration ...

Every year in April, the MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. Each team commemorates Robinson with a special patch on their hats and jerseys, along with wearing the number 42. On April 13 ...

We all might think we know a lot about Jackie Robinson. OK, maybe not his shoe size, but we know his story as the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball. But Ken Makin today shows us sides ...

His name: Jackie Robinson. Robinson is best known, of course, for breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947. But on July 6, 1944, Robinson refused a driver’s order to move to the back of an ...

As part of the effort, the department removed articles and images of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the Navajo Code Talkers and the Tuskegee Airmen. It also pulled the historic photos of six ...

The Pentagon deleted pages dedicated to baseball great Jackie Robinson, who served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army and fought ardently for civil rights. Here's why that matters. Bettmann / NBC via ...

The U.S. Department of Defense removed a webpage about the military career of Black baseball legend Jackie Robinson in early 2025. Rating: True (About this rating?) Context: The U.S. Department of ...

Smith said he thinks the hiring of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is an example of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) amid backlash surrounding the removal of Jackie Robinson’s military ...