Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League Baseball.

Given the Dodgers’ history of breaking the color barrier by making Jackie Robinson the first Black ... funds reporters who cover local issues and allows us to write stories that hold public ...

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ESPN’s Michael Wilbon and Wendell Smith, who helped Jackie Robinson crack into Major League Baseball, are among those to be honored Saturday at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro.

The Cincinnati Reds joined Major League Baseball in commemorating Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of ...

Jackie Robinson burst onto the scene in 1947, breaking baseball’s color barrier and bringing the Negro Leagues’ electrifying ...

Before he broke barriers and records with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson was a four-sport phenom at UCLA, starring in football, basketball, track and field, and of course, baseball.

This Date in Baseball, April 10 - Jackie Robinson becomes the 1st black player to sign a Major League contract ...

1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes first black player of the 20th century to sign an MLB contract. 1949 — Sam Snead wins the Masters, beating Lloyd Mangrum and Johnny Bulla by three strokes.

In addition, the visit comes after Dodger great Jackie Robinson’s entire military career, along with the stories of the Navajo Code Talkers and Ira Hayes, was erased from the Defense Department’s ...

So when Trump sent a White House invitation to the 2024 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers — the franchise of Jackie Robinson, a team whose identity is indelibly linked to its role in ...