New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, but his family moved to Pasadena, California in 1920. After high school, Robinson enrolled at Pasadena ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just ... His father, Jerry, was a ladies man who deserted the family six months after his birth. When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

Until his death in 1972, Robinson was a prominent figure in anything he believed in. Fifty years later, baseball is finally paying tribute to a man who at one time was unwanted. Although these ...

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

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Twelve-year-old George Bates visited Daytona Beach in 1946 when he and his family went to a ballgame ... The now 90-year-old remembers being Jackie Robinson's first bat boy.