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Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League ...
Two local nonprofits — the Business Association of West Parkside and Parkside Association of Philadelphia — are joining ...
1957 — President Eisenhower officially opened the 1956 season by tossing out the first ball at Griffith Stadium in Washington ...
In this instance, that didn’t work for many people, and he was forced to explain further, saying that his post was “not about Jackie Robinson ... to break Major League Baseball’s color ...
To meet with Trump now is to defile the memory of Dodgers great Jackie Robinson and to humiliate many of team’s own players.
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 ..
Jackie Robinson will forever ... but a white guy must have helped him. Baseball wasn’t too different. When Rickey made his plans public, some players and front-office types said there were no players ...
President Donald Trump announced last month that Jackie Robinson would be added to his planned National Garden of American Heroes.
For the last couple of decades, a Jackie Robinson poster has been on the wall above my desk. In addition to a photo of the ...
This Date in Baseball, April 10 - Jackie Robinson becomes the 1st black player to sign a Major League contract ...
"In 1989, the ballpark was named after Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and played his first professional game in this very ballpark. Today, fans can ...