Larry Doby broke the color barrier in the American League. But as Terry Pluto explains, his rushed debut with the Cleveland ...

But standing up for Jackie Robinson should not be a subversive or controversial stance, especially for the Dodgers and MLB. Robinson is more than a baseball icon. He’s an American hero.

On June 14, in Clayton, N.C., about 43 miles east of the Duke campus, celebrated actor and university professor Mike Wiley, ...

But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. As the league plainly states on its website, “Every year on April 15, Baseball honors Jackie's legacy by celebrating ...

Robinson donned the No. 42 as a player, so players wear that number on Jackie Robinson Day as a tribute to the Dodgers legend. His number was retired across the league in 1997.

In some ways, and maybe the most important ways, Jackie Robinson Day is a day like many others during the course of the year for Greene. Greene wore No. 42 uniforms as a youth baseball player in ...

Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

Major League Baseball's Jackie Robinson Day lands in the middle of Trump's anti-DEI plot, which seeks to eliminate talk of pioneering Black heroism.

The first black Major League Baseball player found a friend.