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

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

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 ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson ... the Royals were the champs. Robinson spent just the one season in Montreal before breaking baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Jackie Robinson was an ... he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in 1972 at the age of ...

On Jan. 26, a statue of MLB color-barrier breaking pioneer Jackie ... insult to Robinson's legacy within the game of baseball. Robinson made his first appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers almost ...

The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on his ...

The woman stole $284,000 in checks and $20,000 to $40,000 in other items, leading to losses of over $304,000, prosecutors ...

He was a boy of 16 in 1944 when he trotted out one afternoon to play shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers ... Instead of seeing Jackie Robinson at second, or Pee Wee Reese at short, or Duke Snider ...

Dale Kimball, Wesley Chapel Making America great | Letters, Jan. 17 Eighty years ago, Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Jackie Robinson to a contract with the intent ...