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

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

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

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

MLB chose to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day on April 15 to mark the anniversary of his first game with the Dodgers. Robinson ...

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 ...

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

The Yankees, however, told The News they remain committed to their Diversity and Inclusion Committee ahead of Jackie Robinson Day. On Tuesday, the team hosted the New York Urban League for an ...

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 ...

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 ...