The connective tissue of baseball extends so far and touches to many individuals. Grant, who sang the anthem for Robinson’s ...

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 ...

Baseball helped Earl Weaver open his mind. This is how Frank Robinson becomes the sport’s first Black manager.

NEW YORK -- Five accomplished Black women in baseball gathered at the Jackie Robinson Museum last week to share stories about their unique career paths that led them to where they are today. The focus ...

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.

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

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