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 ...

It was first held in 2004. Who was Jackie Robinson? Jack Roosevelt Robinson broke baseball’s color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers at the relatively advanced age of 28.

EDITOR’S NOTE: As the Dodgers recognize Jackie Robinson Day, multimedia journalist Nikki Kay spoke to a local youth baseball coach about Robinson ... Until the team signed him, Black players had been ...