Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

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

Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey, and on the anniversary of his first appearance for the Dodgers ... for rival Stanford called him “Lightning Jackie Robinson” and he was known ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

The Boston Red Sox will pay tribute to Jackie Robinson on Friday, January 31, on what would have been the 106th birthday for the Hall of Famer. The club will visit 6th – 8th grade students at Joseph P ...

His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of ... first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first, partly to prevent him from getting spiked on slides ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

A teammate later convinced Brown to attend a Dodgers tryout -- a decision that helped him land in the record ... first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson ...

Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, has died.