Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball in the modern era. But that wasn't the only act showing his great humanity. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX ...

Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball player Jackie Robinson, wanted to teach kids about her father, so she wrote a children's book. But instead of focusing on the achievement for which her ...

One of the most transformative figures in American history, Jackie Robinson did more than break baseball's color barrier. He ...

David Robinson, 69, who sits on the Jackie Robinson Foundation’s board of directors, reflected on growing up as the youngest child in the family, in an interview with ESPN’s "Jackie to Me," a ...

If Jackie Robinson was still living, he would celebrate his 100th birthday later this week. ... She moved her children to Pasadena, California when Jackie was 6-months-old, ...

As an iconic couple in American history, the­y were blesse­d with three children: Sharon Robinson, David Robinson, and Jackie­ Robinson Jr. Each child has independently made­ remarkable ...

Robinson died in 1972 at 53, but his widow, Rachel Robinson, 97, also keeps Jackie’s story alive. In 1997, when the Twins retired No. 42, Rabinovitz finally got to meet her. “You’re Ron ...

Doug Glanville with Rachel Robinson in Cuba in 2016. Doug Glanville. LIKE MY KIDS, I was introduced to Jackie Robinson's story when I was growing up in New Jersey.His story had always been larger ...

Jackie Robinson’s contribution to the civil rights movement, ... The three Robinson children would give up their rooms so the musicians could change and practice.

His mother, Mallie Robinson, was a sharecropper in Cairo, Ga., who in 1919 migrated to California with five children, including young Jackie. Mallie Robinson was “unflappable” and ...

Thieves who stole a statue of baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson attacked the mission of League 42, a Wichita, Kansas youth baseball league that creates opportunity for children of color. ...

Jackie Robinson received a letter during the winter of 1954 from a man who volunteered at an orphanage in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The man told Robinson that during one of his visits, he saw a kid ...