Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
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On the thrill -- and honor -- of a first-time Baseball Hall of Fame vote and a childhood dream come trueI was swinging a bat and playing catch -- usually in a ... And while I certainly knew about the likes of Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, Larry Doby, Josh Gibson along with Black stars who started ...
We're never going to get him, and we might throw it away trying to get him," Robinson said ... Henderson's stance at the plate was unique, a low crouch that turned his theoretical strike zone ...
Said manager Frank Robinson: "Don't even try to get him ... from his low-crouch batting stance to his windshield-wiper catches. David Madison/Getty Images Henderson's stance at the plate was ...
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
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 ...
Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98
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.
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