It was first held in 2004. Who was Jackie Robinson? Jack Roosevelt Robinson broke baseball's color line when he started at ...

Branch Rickey knew that signing Jackie Robinson as the first Black player in Major League Baseball’s modern era was a potentially risky endeavor.

To say Jackie Robinson's legacy is bigger than the game of baseball has met a present-day realization—while the MLB joins the ...

Robinson served in the Army for two years before his pro baseball ... the team signed him, Black players had been relegated to the Negro Leagues since the 1880s. Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson ... broke baseball's color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers at the relatively advanced age of 28. Until the team signed him ...

LOS ANGELES — Jackie Robinson's legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball ... Until the team signed him, Black players ...

(AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File) FILE - Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals ... Until the team signed him, Black players had been relegated to the Negro Leagues since the 1880s.