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

Fifty years after Frank Robinson became the ... the year Major League Baseball had the highest percentage of African American players in the league, 18% of all players. The following season, Cito ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

“Robinson is actually named after Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in the MLB,” Livingstone said. “We loved the story. In my lineage, we actually have African ...

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