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"It’s a shame it ever happened because a lot of people went through hell when that happened for no good reason,” Gov. Brian ...
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 ...
Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line in 1947 and became the first African American to play on a major sports team. On January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia.
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.
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 ...
The first black Major League Baseball player found a friend.