In honor of Black History Month, MLB.com retells the story of Jackie Robinson and his spectacular season with the Montreal ...

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

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

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

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In three years in the big leagues, Jackie Robinson had become a superstar, despite racial equality developing slowly across ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the ... playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

LOS ANGELES -- 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 ...