Otherwise, this year’s Jackie Robinson Day, like all the others, will be more about MLB’s front-office whiteness than the proud Black man who helped transform baseball, and subsequently, America.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the ...

When Robinson took the field, Martin Luther King Jr., was only 18. Sure, baseball was America’s pastime, but it could get pretty ugly, depending on who was playing and who was in the ballpark.

Jackie stood for way more than life goes on. “Jackie Robinson is in my heart, he’s in my DNA. He’s with me every day. Without Jackie, there would be no Eric Davis, at least not in baseball.

Major League Baseball is marking the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport’s color barrier. At Citi Field in New York, Robinson’s 101-year-old widow, Rachel, was given … ...

On Friday — the 75th anniversary of when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in his MLB debut — the league celebrated the iconic athlete's legacy in a variety of ways, including ...

The first Jackie Robinson Day was held on April 15, 2004, the 57th anniversary of Robinson's historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. It soon became one of MLB's most important traditions.

A GoFundMe page set up on behalf of the League 42, the youth baseball program in Wichita, Kansas that owns the statue, launched days before pieces of the bronze Jackie Robinson were found burned.

PITTSBURGH (93.7 The Fan) – Every year it seems we find out more and players get a deeper understanding of what Jackie Robinson endured at the start of his Major League Baseball career. Tuesday ...

History records Jackie Robinson's multi-facted dominance In the winter of 1940, after helping push the Bruins to an undefeated 1939 season, the first in UCLA history, Jackie turned to basketball.

New Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Kirby Puckett and his son, Kirby, Jr., look at the Jackie Robinson exhibit as they tour the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., on May 3, 2001.