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On Tuesday, all across the baseball world, Jackie Robinson Day commemorations will once again take center stage. Since 2004, April 15 has been an obligatory notch on the baseball calendar ...
Every year in April, the MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. Each team commemorates Robinson with a special patch on their hats and jerseys, along with wearing the number 42. On April 13 ...
On Tuesday, as it has since 2004, Major League Baseball is commemorating the day 78 years ago that Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
An article about Jackie Robinson’s service in the Army was scrubbed from the Department of Defense website on Wednesday and later restored after a DOD official told ABC News that it had been ...
Every April 15, MLB pays homage to one of its most important players with Jackie Robinson Day in honor of the Los Angeles Dodgers legend. Players, managers and coaches on all 30 MLB teams will ...
Major League Baseball annually honors the extraordinary contributions of Jackie Robinson and his critical role in the integration of modern professional sports. This week, active players displayed ...
Jackie Robinson wore an Organization for Civil Rights badge when he took part in a Louisville march with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1964. Bill Strode Courier-Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK As Donald ...
Robinson served in the Army during World War II. Passan's post read in full: This used to be the URL for a story on the @DeptofDefense website about Jackie Robinson's time in the Army. The story ...
All of Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day on Tuesday, April 15, as it was on this day that the former Dodgers’ trailblazer debuted and broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947.