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

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

The destruction of a Jackie Robinson statue caught the attention of the nation. The aftermath showed how deeply Robinson ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just ... His father, Jerry, was a ladies man who deserted the family six months after his birth. When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, but his family moved to Pasadena, California in 1920. After high school, Robinson enrolled at Pasadena ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

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

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

Twelve-year-old George Bates visited Daytona Beach in 1946 when he and his family went to a ballgame ... The now 90-year-old remembers being Jackie Robinson's first bat boy.

Facing racism and discrimination everywhere, Robinson refused to give in, defying Jim Crow segregation in Pasadena and, as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army, standing up for his rights when ...