Jackie Robinson

A baseball bat used by Brooklyn Dodgers great Jackie Robinson during the 1949 MLB All-Star Game sold for a record $1.08 million dollars at an auction Saturday.

Major League Baseball is celebrating Jackie Robinson Day on April 15, which is the 75th anniversary of him breaking baseball’s color barrier.

As the Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman that day in 1947, he saw action right from the start.

Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history

Everyone in Major League Baseball was wearing 42 on Friday. Tragically, it turned out to be for the man who wore it and the man who portrayed the man who wore it. Jackie Robinson Day is supposed to be April 15, the day Jackie integrated baseball. Since COVID-19 made April baseball impossible, MLB staged the event on August 28, the…

The Black Lives Matter movement is a turning point in the history of our country. The Los Angeles Dodgers know a lot about history, especially when it comes to racial inequality. The organization that broke the color barrier in sports by signing Jackie Robinson on April 10, 1947, announced that they would auction off game-worn jerseys featuring the MLB’s Black…

There has been a recent push by some advocates to change the name of Barclays Center to something that could honor legendary Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are among those who are tipping their caps in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues.

Most folks by now know the story of how Jackie Robinson became the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. That was in 1947. Just one year later a San Diego native blazed another trail. Johnny Ritchey, who attended San Diego High School and San Diego State, became the first black player in Padres and Pacific Coast League history. “It’s…

Vin Scully joined the widow of Jackie Robinson to honor the player who broke baseball’s color barrier during Robinson’s centennial birthday celebration Monday night.

History can be learned from books. But nothing tops hearing about it from those who lived it. That’s the approach a group of UNT students and a guest director took, for an upcoming production focusing on those who grew up during World War II.

Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Don Newcombe, considered one of the all-time great Dodgers and one of the storied franchise’s final links to Brooklyn, died at age 92, the team announced Tuesday.

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Major League Baseball has made an effort to grow the sport among African-Americans, and there are finally some small signs of progress. Meanwhile, ballparks from coast to coast host nights celebrating the LGBT community, another example of baseball’s attempts to promote diversity. Right now, all of that is being overshadowed after the discovery of some inflammatory old tweets from current...

Jackie Robinson’s daughter thinks black baseball players are more reluctant to speak publicly about racial issues than their NFL and NBA colleagues because they constitute a lower percentage of rosters. She spoke at Citi Field on Sunday to mark Jackie Robinson Day, the 71st anniversary of her father breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

LeBron James responded to Fox News Laura Ingraham’s commentary, which has been received as being racially charged by saying that he will “definitely not shut up and dribble”

The mother was 36 years old. Her kids who were killed were just 5 and 11, a girl and a boy.

Police are investigating what they say appears to be a quadruple homicide in New York. Abigail Bleck reports.