April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day, marking the date he broke baseball's color barrier. But the number of African Americans playing the game keeps shrinking — a result of some unpleasant truths.
Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League Baseball.
Few moments in baseball history have been wrapped in the kind of cultural significance that Frank Robinson’s opening day home run carried with it over the wall against the Yankees on April 8, 1975, at ...
The Daytona Tortugas dropped their 2025 season opener against Bradenton 6-2 Friday at Jackie Robinson Ballpark.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are set to celebrate their 2024 World Series championship at the White House on Monday, and it appears that most, if not all of the team will be in attendance. The team ...
A pair of top-10 position players in the Reds' farm system and a couple of former LSU pitchers headline the Daytona Tortugas' ...
It was a quiet morning at Bruno's Triangle 7 Rodeo Arena in northeast Houston, but that all changed when 89-year-old retired bull rider Myrtis Dightman walked into the indoor hall. Dightman is a ...
Fifty years ago this April, Lee Elder arrived in Augusta with "the bravery of a lion" to change the sport forever.
Dave Sims has been a fixture on sports radio dating back to the 1980s, doing about every job imaginable in that time. He has ...
A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson's military service was restored Wednesday after it was missing earlier in the day. A Department ... Calvin ...
The U.S. Naval Academy faces backlash for flagging Jackie Robinson’s biography amid a DEI policy shift, sparking concerns.
A storied five-bedroom, two-bathroom colonial residence in Queens’ Addisleigh Park historic district, once home to baseball icon Jackie Robinson during his Brooklyn Dodgers glory days ...