A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

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 ...

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

every MLB player wears the number for “Jackie Robinson Day.” In his 10-year career in pro baseball, Robinson was the Rookie of the Year, the National League MVP, the NL batting champion ...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who broke the sport's ... Then, when he joined the Dodgers, Robinson played alongside star shortstop and duPont Manual alum Pee Wee Reese. After his baseball ...

There are newspaper and magazine articles, Nike commercials, a massive campaign in baseball with every ball and uniform emblazoned with a special Jackie Robinson logo, a short film by Spike Lee that ...

"I only played baseball with the local neighborhood teams ... for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully ...

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 ...