More Bettmann/Getty Images Robinson joined a Dodgers club that went on ... I don't know how many signed, but several did. Jackie was a great ball player." Brooklyn traded Brown to the Philadelphia ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

Jackie Robinson signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was for $35,000 per year (still just $455,000 in today’s dollars). Sheesh—how ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and ... Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day ...

"Spring training is the opportunity for families to unite," explained Traer Van Allen, general manager of the minor-league St ...

Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest ... time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

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 ...