He died in 1972 at age 53. MLB retired Robinson’s jersey, No. 42, in 1997, and the league celebrates his legacy and accomplishments annually on Jackie Robinson Day. Jack Roosevelt Robinson ...

The NBA’s integration had begun, with three men shouldering the load Jackie Robinson had ... is now about 75% Black. Cooper, Clifton and Lloyd don’t have a shared jersey number hanging in ...

FRISCO - Jackie Robinson endured racist taunts and physical ... he merely had to have one of mankind's all-time style-over-substance fathers. As quarterback of the Buffaloes for two seasons ...

At baseball fields across the country on Tuesday, major league players wore No. 42 jerseys as a way to honor the legacy of Jackie Robinson. At Texas, Oliver Service did the same during a game ...

New Jersey — where Doby first shined as a high school athlete — to get the Hall of Famer his own annual, league-wide celebration. “Anytime Jackie Robinson would come up, my grandpa would ...

SO EACH YEAR WE CELEBRATE JACKIE ROBINSON NIGHT. ALL THE PLAYERS WILL BE WEARING SPECIAL 42 JERSEYS. SO ESSENTIALLY A WAY JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS NEXT GENERATION TRULY UNDERSTANDS THE WEIGHT ...

April 15th is a holiday across Major League Baseball. 78 years ago, Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut, breaking the color barrier and becoming the first Black player in modern Major League Baseball.

Do not be fooled by the Jackie Robinson jersey giveaway the Los Angeles Dodgers are doing or any of the empty platitudes they and Major League Baseball spout. Their lionizing of Robinson this year ...

Democrat-hatched strategy to “divide America,” Jackie Robinson’s signing is an unassailable counterpoint. No matter the MLK-style defanging of his Civil Rights efforts (a flattening and ...

March 19 (UPI) --An article about baseball icon Jackie Robinson's military history was "mistakenly removed" from the Department of Defense website due to search terms used to scrub diversity ...

An article about the baseball great Jackie Robinson's time in the Army has been removed from the Department of Defense's website. The new webpage URL, now adding "dei" to the link, shows a "404 ...

AS WESH 2’S PAMELA COMME REPORTS, THE PUSH TO MAKE JACKIE ROBINSON BALLPARK IN DAYTONA BEACH A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, IS NOW ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALITY. SOMETIMES LIFE’S ALL ABOUT BEING ...