On Nov. 18, 1949, Brooklyn Dodgers infielder Jackie Robinson was named the National League MVP after his third season with the club. After breaking the color barrier in April 1947, Robinson became the ...
Great stints with a Major League team are defined by the overall body of work, not just the first season. But everyone likes ...
Jackie Robinson’s 1948 Brooklyn Dodgers road jersey is a profound reminder that baseball has often been ahead of its time. Robinson’s debut came a year before President Harry Truman desegregated the ...
The Dodgers have a long track record of producing excellent young players, with the most Rookie of the Year Awards (18) among ...
John Donald (Spider) Jorgensen was a Brooklyn Dodger who sacrificed the heart of his career for his country. When ballplayers refuse vaccines to help make their country safer, Jorgensen was a ...
Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger, a former president of the Brooklyn College Alumni Association and a past president of the Society of Old Brooklynites, will be the keynote speaker as the ...
NEW YORK -- Players across Major League Baseball are donning Jackie Robinson's No. 42 - and all of them in Dodger blue this year - for the 75th anniversary of Robinson's big league debut. In New York, ...
Who was the best player in his first year wearing the LA Dodgers uniform. MLB.com said on the 31st (Korea time) 'Jackie and ...
LOS ANGELES -- Everything was perfectly placed Saturday, when it came to the Jackie Robinson statue the Los Angeles Dodgers unveiled at Dodger Stadium. Presented on Jackie Robinson Day, the bronze ...