Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball and is a celebrated hero of the Civil Rights Movement ...
Mykalai Kontilai, who fraudulently used Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers contracts, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million he stole from investors.
On Jan. 8, 1956, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Jackie Robinson the Spingarn Medal for his strong support of civil rights initiatives. The Brooklyn Dodgers ...
But then again, there haven't been many people like Jackie ... lives. Robinson lit the torch and passed it on to several generations of African-American athletes. While the Brooklyn Dodgers ...
Apr 15, 2017; Los Angeles, CA, USA; The Los Angeles Dodgers today unveiled a Jackie Robinson statue at Dodger Stadium, the first statue in Stadium history, as part of Jackie Robinson Day ...
“Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach has ... Robinson put on his Dodgers' jersey No. 42, now retired throughout all of the MLB, on April 15, 1947. He scored the winning run against the ...