While most know that Robinson was the first Black player in the MLB, few are aware of his courageous efforts off the field. Such efforts should be admired and offer an example that seems much needed ...

Mookie Betts and his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates were joined by the Colorado Rockies in visiting Jackie Robinson's statue ...

The following article, which covered Sharon Robinson’s appearance at the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet at ...

Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. He stepped into the batter’s box at Ebbets Field in the Flatbush ...

FILE - Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. (AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, ...

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A version of this story was originally published in April 2020. Jackie Robinson is an unmatched figure in baseball history. When he broke the game's color barrier on April 15, 1947, it was a ...

It’s one of the many reasons we love Longmont! Opinion writer Ken Zornes makes the ultimate false equivalence in associating the Jackie Robinson experience with the warped DEI programs of today.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Cincinnati Reds joined Major League Baseball in commemorating Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson's historic breaking of baseball’s color barrier 78 years ago on April 15 ...

In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson became the first Black ... religion or national origin. File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched ...

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.

Robinson was as hard on Republicans as Democrats, as evidenced by this letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, penned May 13, 1958, a copy of which I recently mysteriously found in my files ... 150 ...