The most valuable contracts in sports history remain in the hands of federal authorities as a settlement over Jackie Robinson's 1945 and 1947 paperwork is expected to be formally reached in the coming ...
Jackie Robinson burst onto the scene in 1947, breaking baseball’s color barrier and bringing the Negro Leagues’ electrifying style of play to the Majors. He quickly became baseball’s top drawing card ...
VESTAL, NY (WBNG) --For more than two decades, Major League Baseball celebrates Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson on April 15th across all the game. In 1947, on that day Robinson broke the baseball color ...
Baseball player Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier as its first Black athlete. The infielder made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and went on to have a ...
As the man who broke Baseball's color barrier, Jackie Robinson holds a singular place in Hobby history as one of the sport's most significant players ever. Not surprisingly, he is also one of the ...
The Pentagon has defended removing a webpage about legendary baseball player and civil rights leader Jackie Robinson by ...
— -- This story has been corrected. Read below. An entrepreneur says he has unearthed the sports equivalent of the Emancipation Proclamation: one of the original contracts Jackie Robinson signed ...
BALTIMORE — Every April 15, Major League Baseball undergoes a powerful transformation. For one day, every player on every team wears the same number — 42 — in honor of Jackie Robinson breaking ...
Growing up in the Bahamas, Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. learned a lot about baseball from his maternal grandmother. A shortstop for the Bahamian national softball team in the 1980s, ...
Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League Baseball game, died on Wednesday. Brown was 97 years old and died after ...