Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.

A statue of Jackie Robinson that was stolen last week from ... Ford said Tuesday that police have conducted “over 100 interviews” and are tracking down leads, including the use of technology ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson ... Becker, in an interview for this obituary, recalled seeing Robinson emerge from the first base dugout ...

HONOLULU — (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the ... the clubhouse and ran them up to the AP staffer writing the story. Becker ...