Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and ... football, basketball and track and field. According to the California Community Colleges website, Robinson batted .417 with 43 runs scored ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first ... basketball, football and track and field. Robinson arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena Junior College ...

Jackie Robinson is celebrated as the trailblazer ... He was a multi-talented athlete who shone in football, track and field, basketball, and, of course, baseball. This innate athletic ability ...

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 ...

Nadielis Caban, a 7th-grader at South Mountain Middle School in Allentown, was selected by MLB to participate in a trailblazer series April 10-13 at Vero Beach, Florida. The program is designed to ...

Hundreds of Altadena residents, encouraged by L.A. County Supervisor Barger, vow to return, but we need to balance risks and merits of swiftly rebuilding after the fires.

Gene Kahane writes, "It seems this month, Black History Month, is the best time to look at race and sports because, to put it ...

He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie ... and right field in his prewar tenure. When he did not win the job in camp, it went to Robinson.

We didn't have a field. We usually played on pavement or ... for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully ...

In a continued celebration of Black History Month, our first pick this week is Jackie Robinson. Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose ...

The field is named in tribute to Larry Doby, who as a member of baseball's Cleveland franchise broke the color barrier in the American League in 1947, just months after Jackie Robinson made his ...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn ... forever changed to reflect the nation as a whole. After Robinson’s debut, an almost all-white crowd at Ebbets Field ...