Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...
Today, we celebrate Jackie Robinson on what would have been his 100th birthday. Happy birthday to an all-time legend. #JR100 https://t.co/7NWcdF57zP Today marks what ...
(AP) – Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.
The Boston Red Sox will pay tribute to Jackie Robinson on Friday, January 31, on what would have been the 106th birthday for the Hall of Famer. The club will visit 6th – 8th grade students at Joseph P ...
On what would have been his 100th birthday, we look back on everything that Jackie Robinson meant to UCLA, the game of baseball, and the world we live in today. #GoBruins pic.twitter.com ...
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
Friday’s fundraiser happened on Jackie Robinson’s birthday in his hometown of Cairo. Chipper Jones is a former Atlanta Braves slugger and a hall-of-fame baseball player. He played for the ...
Brown homered the following season, in his 66th career game and about a month prior to his 18th birthday ... first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won ...