Baseball player Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier as its first Black athlete. The infielder made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and went on to have a ...

As Major League Baseball commemorates Jackie Robinson on Friday and Saturday, a wave of players, coaches and executives are expressing their gratitude for the Brooklyn Dodgers legend and civil rights ...

— -- This story has been corrected. Read below. An entrepreneur says he has unearthed the sports equivalent of the Emancipation Proclamation: one of the original contracts Jackie Robinson signed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the 78th ...

Former Major League Baseball player Ralph Branca had the incredible opportunity of being teammates with Jackie ...

NEW YORK -- Long dreamed about and under construction for longer than the big league career of the man it honors, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened Tuesday in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended ...

Authorities are calling on the public for help in finding the suspects who stole a statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson from a public park in Wichita, Kansas. Surveillance video captured the ...

Keeping the “memory and values alive for today’s ... players and fans.” Seventy-five years ago, Jackie Robinson debuted as a first baseman with the Brooklyn Dodgers while donning jersey No. 42.