Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball and is a celebrated hero of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Jackie Robinson is known as the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States in modern baseball history.

The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey on Oct. 23, 1945, was an agreement to play for the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers’ top farm club.

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman, and Dodgers president Branch Rickey after signing a contract in 1950. Robinson more than doubled his salary from $17,000 to $35,000 after winning ...

Jackie Robinson Ballpark, where baseball legend Jackie Robinson first donned a Major League Baseball uniform during 1946 ...

While regarded in the hierarchy of baseball immortality, this day in 2015 saw the Los Angeles Dodgers unveil details of a Jackie ... a statue of Robinson to be built by former Brooklyn resident ...

one year before making his Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Ballpark is also the oldest in use in the minor leagues, having opened on June 4, 1914. Waltz and U.S. Rep.

A look back at the fifth day of January in sports history and elsewhere. We have popes, presidents and a Babe, among others ...

A Thanksgiving visit to Cooperstown, New York necessitated a grudging stop at the Baseball Hall of Fame. What I found out ...

“Fans of the Hartford Whalers or Quebec Nordiques were able to jump back in and get gear for teams that relocated elsewhere ...

Mykalai Kontilai, who fraudulently used Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn Dodgers contracts, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million he stole from investors. Dec. 10 ...