In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

But one key piece of baseball history is off the market right now and is instead in the hands of U.S. marshals: the contract signed by Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball’s color barrier. L.A. Times ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson’s Major ...

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

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

The Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund have announced application details for the annual Jackie Robinson Grant Program. The Jackie Robinson Grant Program will accept applications through ...

The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker.

CAIRO, Ga. (WCTV) - The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker. Friday’s fundraiser happened on ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday. He was 98. He ...