Even though Jackie Robinson died in 1972 ... colored team”—except there was no Black team. Robinson’s superiors sought to keep him out of officer candidate school, but he persevered and ...
Thunder City Edition uniform (Photo by Zach Beeker/NBAE via Getty Images) The fifth of those players did so in the Seattle SuperSonics era, forward alum Jackie Robinson (no, not the one you are ...
Rarely does it matter that Ken Burns’ “Baseball,” an immersive ten-part docuseries about the history of America’s pastime, is built on frustrating inaccuracies, fetishizes an East Coast narrative, or ...
On opening day for Major League Baseball, our columnist looks at another side of Jackie Robinson’s legacy: statesman and ...
Thank you, Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, for revealing what the removal of a Jackie Robinson biography from a government ...
During his time suiting up for the SuperSonics, Robinson wore only jersey No. 22 and put up 3.8 points, 1.6 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game.
We all might think we know a lot about Jackie Robinson. OK, maybe not his shoe size, but we know his story as the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball. But Ken Makin today shows us sides ...
His name: Jackie Robinson. Robinson is best known, of course, for breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947. But on July 6, 1944, Robinson refused a driver’s order to move to the back of an ...
America's oldest Minor League Baseball stadium has been voted one of its best. Jackie Robinson Ballpark was voted one of the top minor-league parks in the USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards ...
A Treasure Coast sports tradition will return next month after a five-year hiatus. The Jackie Robinson Celebration Game will be at the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Vero Beach in April to ...
(AP) — A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military ... the department’s campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions ...