A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, center, and teammates listen to former NBA player Kareem ...

4. In high school, Jackie Robinson played on a baseball team with other future Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Bob Lemon. Robinson attended John Muir High School, where he was placed on the Pomona ...

Jackie Robinson is more than a historical figure to Louisville baseball's Eddie King Jr., who plans to honor the legend ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers will celebrate Jackie Robinson Day on the 78th anniversary of when he broke the color barrier in ...

It was first held in 2004. Who was Jackie Robinson? Jack Roosevelt Robinson broke baseball's color line when he started at ...

The first black major leaguer, Robinson was not hired because of his race. He would have been a Hall of Famer in any era.

All of Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day on Tuesday, April 15, as it was on this day that the former ...

And it was very important to me that Jackie’s team won." Robinson's influence for Abdul-Jabbar went beyond what he did on the ...

It's Jackie Robinson Day! Major League Baseball will be celebrating Jackie Robinson on April 15, 2025. Catch your favorite ...

Every team playing Monday wore No. 42 jerseys ... Robinson’s 102-year-old widow marked the anniversary at the Jackie Robinson Museum in Brooklyn with Commissioner Rob Manfred.

Until the team signed him, Black players had been relegated to the Negro Leagues since the 1880s. Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson safely steals home plate under the tag of New York Yankees ...