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April 15th marks the day when Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the then-Brooklyn Dodgers in ...
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2009. We present it here as Major League Baseball commemorates the ...
The Dodgers, who later moved to LA, were an integral part of Indian River County until new team ownership moved spring ...
When Rachel Robinson and the foundation she started in honor of her barrier-breaking husband opened the Jackie Robinson ...
Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. He stepped into the batter’s box at Ebbets Field in the Flatbush ...
MLB is right to celebrate its most impactful participant, an American civil rights hero whose courage should always be taught.
That's because Jack Roosevelt Robinson is buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery, right off Jamaica Avenue and the Jackie Robinson Parkway — originally the Interboro, renamed in his honor, also in 1997. "It ...
The barrier-breaking baseball Hall of Famer is buried at the Cypress Hills Cemetery, just off the parkway bearing his name.
Sydney Robinson is the showrunner, director, writer, cinematographer and star of the internet’s new favorite show: a series of TikToks about a girls’ group chat. The first video, which ...
By Ike Coate The Mercer County Historical Society Mercer County certainly has its share of athletic excellence with countless boys and girls high school state championships in multiple sports.
UCLA women’s basketball junior forward Janiah Barker has been named the university’s Inaugural Big Ten Jackie Robinson Community and Impact Award campus winner, the Big Ten announced this week.
Located just off the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Woodhaven, the Forest Park Golf Course, at 101 Forest Park Dr., was originally designed by Tom Bendelo in 1896 but later redesigned in 1999 by ...