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On June 14, in Clayton, N.C., about 43 miles east of the Duke campus, celebrated actor and university professor Mike Wiley, ...
The Dodgers sported Brooklyn caps for the Royals' annual Salute to the Negro Leagues game, paying tribute to Jackie Robinson.
Cincinnati Reds prospect Alfredo Duno will be the first Daytona Tortugas player to appear in the minor-league all-star game ...
The first black Major League Baseball player found a friend.
A Floral Park man was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle and crashed on the Jackie Robinson Parkway in Ridgewood ...
The Royals’ annual Salute to the Negro Leagues celebration will be Sunday when they finish a three-game series with the ...
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.
Kiké Hernández hit a two-run homer and Will Smith also went deep to send the Dodgers to a rain-delayed 5-1 victory over the ...
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.
Caitlin Clark's rookie season has had its share of highlights-but lately, it's been a grind. The Indiana Fever guard, once hailed as a generational shooter, is now in the middle of ...
Late Jackie Robinson, Jr., was born on 18 November 1946. He passed away at the age­ of 24 in a car accident that occurred on June 17, 1971. (via the Jackie Robinson Foundation) ...