Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

Every MLB team has retired his No. 42 jersey ... There is also a stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida named after him, Jackie Robinson Ballpark. Robinson played in the city during spring training ...

The AFL All-Star game that followed the 1964 season was supposed to be played in New Orleans, where city fathers ... the boycott as "pro football's Jackie Robinson moment." ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

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

CAIRO, Ga. (WCTV) - The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker. Friday’s fundraiser happened on ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, 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 then reported for camp and competed for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully integrated Major League ...

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie ... of Robinson’s teammates had signed a petition because they didn’t want to play with a Black man. But the stadium ...