Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

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

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

New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

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

January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...

“All the other public courts are open … and for some reason, they’ve singled out the Jackie Robinson courts to be locked all winter long.” A petition to reopen the courts, launched Jan. 14 ...

Residents say these tennis courts need more “love.” Longtime tennis players at a public Bedford-Stuyvesant park say the facility has been unfairly shuttered by the Parks department, and residents ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on his ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil ... a World Series champion, a six-time All-Star and twice led the league in stolen bases. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ...