Even if you think you know the story surrounding the theft of League 42’s Jackie Robinson statue, a new Wichita Eagle ...
Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Moviegoers who headed this past weekend to the AMC Magic Johnson Harlem 9 for the opening of “42” saw the story of how Jackie Robinson displayed legendary courage ...
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.
The theft earlier this year shocked the local community and made news nationwide. In the following months, support poured in ...
Major League Baseball celebrates something special today. April 15 marks Jackie Robinson Day, and each year the league commemorates the legacy of Brooklyn Dodgers star and Hall-of-Famer Jackie ...
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Most Wichitans, along with a whole lot of other people, already know the story of how League 42’s Jackie Robinson statue was stolen from McAdams Park where the nonprofit youth baseball league ...
Another Daily News story in 1979 addressed the contracts ... partial ownership of the contracts is the public, nonprofit Jackie Robinson Foundation, launched in 1973 by Robinson's widow, Rachel ...
President Biden signed the “Jackie Robinson Ballpark National Commemorative Site Act,” which designates the Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida, as a commemorative site and ...