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A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...
Given the Dodgers’ history of breaking the color barrier by making Jackie Robinson the first Black Major League Baseball ...
As a Black baseball player, both Jackie Robinson and his old jersey number have a lot of meaning for Service. On April 15, 1947, Robinson broke MLB’s color barrier while playing for the Brooklyn ...
Being at Rate Field is nothing out of the ordinary for Micah Johnson, who was the 2015 White Sox Opening Day second baseman ...
The 2025 celebration of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier is taking place in a toxic political environment.
LOS ANGELES — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball ... No. 42 during his playing days with the ...
Was Robinson ... to integrate baseball, I asked eight-time All-Star and former National League President Bill White, “because he was so nice?” “Nice?!” he shot back. “Jackie wasn ...
Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the 78th anniversary of his ...