Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...
The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...
Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947 ... they booed every time a Louisville player came out of the dugout.
Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...
Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...
Through the years, leaders in the community have stepped up to create museums or save historical houses belonging to ...
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color ... baseball diamond, they might not know that he was a pretty phenomenal football ...