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

Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson and his legacy. Robinson, the first Black player in the major leagues when he debuted for ...

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 ...

42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers, every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career in pro baseball, Robinson was the ...

While Jackie Robinson is often celebrated as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, history tells a different story.

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport's ... Then, when he joined the Dodgers, Robinson played alongside star shortstop and duPont Manual alum Pee Wee Reese. After his baseball ...

Allen will be posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 27. Being included in the fraternity of ...

There are newspaper and magazine articles, Nike commercials, a massive campaign in baseball with every ball and uniform emblazoned with a special Jackie Robinson logo, a short film by Spike Lee that ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier ... they booed every time a Louisville player came out of the dugout.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...