In front of 8,434 spectators, the most people to watch a baseball game in North Carolina at that time, Jackie Robinson and ...

Vandals in Miami defaced a mural of baseball legends Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso with racist graffiti earlier this week ...

The graffiti consists of swastikas painted on both men's face, with the N-word also used twice on Robinson. The murals, which ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies ...

It is unlikely that today’s Jackie Robinson ... that Robinson was tough enough to subvert his own yearning for retaliation, Rickey signed him, and now Robinson’s No.42 is retired throughout ...

In recognition of his profound impact on the gam, Major League Base­ball retired the No. 42 jersey across all their te­ams in 1997. After the 1956 season, Jackie Robinson announced his ...

From Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona's perspective, Jackie Robinson Day isn't necessarily a day of celebration, and that's no slight against the Civl Rights icon. Speaking Tuesday in his ...

This weekend, a scorecard is expected to be added to the upper eschelon: one from Jackie Robinson's debut in 1947. The lightly scored, folded piece of history is already at $16,470 at Heritage ...

Jackie Robinson, who made his debut as the first Black American in Major League ... you’ll find special edition Nike Home jerseys, featuring the No. 42 and a limited edition design, available ...

Isn’t it great to have MLB as a corporate neighbor and Indian River County partner to promote tourism and teach character to children at the Jackie ... Robinson, who in 1947 became MLB’s first ...

The thought of Black and White worshippers drinking from the same cup may have been jolting in a region that would segregate drinking fountains for more than another hundred years. The chalice has ...