A Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Cubs and Phillies has ...

And right after that , we started the Human Dignity Award breakfast there at the Jackie Robinson Family Y in our old building. And it started out , you know , kind of small , just a few hundred ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that ... His father, Jerry, was a ladies man who deserted the family six months after his birth. When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...

Twelve-year-old George Bates visited Daytona Beach in 1946 when he and his family went to a ballgame ... The now 90-year-old remembers being Jackie Robinson's first bat boy.

As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles ...

Jackie Robinson led the way for generations of black ... His father, Jerry, was a ladies man who deserted the family six months after his birth. When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother ...

WHEN HE AND HIS FAMILY WENT TO A BALL GAME. ME AND MY BROTHER WERE THE ONLY KIDS AROUND THERE, AND THEY NEEDED SOMEONE TO BE BAT BOY THAT DAY. THE NOW 90 YEAR OLD REMEMBERS BEING JACKIE ROBINSON ...