Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

We all know Jackie Robinson could hit a home run and steal bases like nobody's business. But off the field, he enjoyed a life of well-deserved luxury. Imagine a sleek, four-door design that turned ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...

Brown was 97 years old and died after contracting pneumonia ... for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and ...

Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he ... That’s where Robinson -- a 27-year old World War II veteran -- led the Royals to what was called the “Junior World Series ...

a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday. He was 98. He died of natural ...