“I was stunned,” said the shellshocked Shakoor, a distant cousin of the late Black professional baseball player Jackie Robinson ... gig to his day job as a second-grade teacher assistant ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker.

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

The Boston Red Sox will pay tribute to Jackie Robinson on Friday, January 31, on what would have been the 106th birthday for the Hall of Famer. The club will visit 6th – 8th grade students at Joseph P ...

Ultimately Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first, partly to prevent him from getting spiked on slides into second.

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.

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 ...