The Boston Red Sox will pay tribute to Jackie Robinson on Friday, January 31, on what would have been the 106th birthday for the Hall of Famer. The club will visit 6th – 8th grade students at Joseph P ...
New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
In three years in the big leagues, Jackie Robinson had become a superstar, despite racial equality developing slowly across ...
The dirt and grass surface will be replaced with turf. New lights will also be installed. The field hosts Eastside High's ...
Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...
He played in 46 games for his hometown Brooklyn ... in the Dodgers’ spring training camp, he lost the competition for the first base job to none other than Jackie Robinson.
Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for a National ...
A native of Brooklyn, Brown was the final living member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers—the team for which Jackie Robinson debuted at first base on April 15, integrating the National League.
Trea Turner spent less than two full seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but he had enough of an impact to inspire former KBO star Hyeseong Kim to choose 6 as a jersey number. Kim, who signed ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers have followed up their 2024 World Series championship with significant additions this winter. They signed two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell to a $182 million ...
On Jan. 8, 1956, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Jackie Robinson the Spingarn Medal for his strong support of civil rights initiatives. The Brooklyn Dodgers ...