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A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2009. We present it here as Major League Baseball commemorates the ...
Jackie Robinson Day began with a request by Ken Griffey Jr. asking baseball commissioner Bud Selig if he could wear ...
As a Black baseball player, both Jackie Robinson and his old jersey number have a lot of meaning for Texas catcher Oliver ...
LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Jackie Robinson was the first to break baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago ...
President Donald Trump awarded the Navy Midshipmen football team, from the U.S. Naval Academy, the Commander-in-Chief's ...
Major League Baseball, in coordination with the Jackie Robinson Foundation, MLB Clubs and various partners, has announced Baseball’s 2025 efforts to honor the legacy of Jackie Robinson under the MLB ...
Why else would the Department of Defense remove references about the Navajo Code Talkers, or the Tuskegee Airmen of WWII or Jackie Robinson from its website if not for the above? DEI is simply a ...
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The No. 10-ranked UCLA baseball team continued its dominant stretch on Tuesday night, overwhelming Long Beach State 12-1 in a seven-inning run-rule victory at Jackie Robinson Stadium.
1934 — The Chicago Black Hawks edge the Detroit Red Wings 1-0 in overtime to win the Stanley ... hemorrhage two months later. 1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes first black player of the 20th ...
1934 — The Chicago Black Hawks edge the Detroit Red Wings 1-0 in overtime to win the Stanley Cup in 4 of the best-of-5 series. Charlie Gardiner gets the shutout and Mush March scores the winning ...