In honor of Black History Month, MLB.com retells the story of Jackie Robinson and his spectacular season with the Montreal ...

On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major ... of his first appearance for the Dodgers, every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career in ...

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.

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. By now, most — if not all — of you are surrounded by homage to the break-down of the color barrier in baseball.

In three years in the big leagues, Jackie Robinson had become a superstar, despite racial equality developing slowly across ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

Brown, for his part, refused to partake in a petition started by other Dodgers players who didn't want to share a team with Robinson. "I didn't like it, because he was a man," he said.

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...