Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on his ...

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

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, born Jan ... Take a look back at his trailblazing life and career. The grandson of a slave, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born Jan. 31, 1919, in Cairo, Ga.

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 ...

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 ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that of baseball. He was a transforming ... 342 average and 37 steals. He also had career-highs in RBI (124) and runs (122). After a decade with ...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport's ... After his baseball career, Robinson returned to Kentucky to join the thousands advocating for civil rights in the 1964 March on Frankfort.

The Jackie Robinson Baseball League held its Opening Day ceremony Sunday at Thomas Foreman Park in Greenville. During the ceremony, the league retired the number 6, the number Jayceon Epps wore.

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most — if not all — of you are surrounded by homage to the break-down of the color barrier in baseball.

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...