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 ...

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 ...

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

“(Holding the Jackie Robinson Day game every year ... Having worn a Dodgers jersey to rep Robinson and his and his father’s favorite team, one he regularly saw as a child, Carpenter was stopped by a ...

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

As a Black baseball player, both Jackie Robinson and his old ... someone on every team should wear it, " Service said of Robinson's No. 42 on Tuesday night. "He's a big staple in the game, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.