On March 18, 2025, ESPN baseball columnist Jeff Passan made an X post (archived) claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense removed a page about the U.S. Army career of baseball legend Jackie ...

Jackie Robinson ... both [white and Black baseball] groups know their crowd psychology and do not care to run the risk of damaging their own game.” Note that once Rickey, having ignored this line of ...

Certainly, Jackie Robinson fits the bill. Paying an extraordinary personal price, he served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II and broke baseball’s color barrier ...

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.