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

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

In its celebration of Black History Month, MLB Network looks at the careers of Jackie Robinson and Mookie Betts and their ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for a National or American League team in the 20th century.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

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.

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 ...