Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on Opening Day. Hulton Archive. Robinson, second from left, ...

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 ...

Our theoretical Jackie Robinson ends up with 117.3 career WAR, which would place him seventh among position players who played at least part of their careers after integration: Barry Bonds (162.8 ...

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers star since breaking into Major League baseball in 1947, is shown with his wife, Rachel, and their four-year-old son, Jackie Jr., in their home in Stamford, Conn ...

“Baseball and Jackie Robinson haven’t had much to say to each other,” he said, and now that he had come to Los Angeles he had used the occasion to tell Dodgers President Peter O’Malley ...

Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947, but he was also a gifted athlete in football, basketball, and track and field. He was also an outspoken advocate for equal ...

April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day. And every year, on Jackie Robinson Day, we celebrate Jackie’s contributions to baseball: his breaking of Major League Baseball’s modern color line, as well as ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 78th ...