A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...
Tommy Brown, a Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Chicago Cubs and ... baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black ...
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 ...
He would also suit up for the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia ... for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and ...
The Rays Baseball Foundation and Rowdies Soccer Fund have announced application details for the annual Jackie Robinson Grant Program. The Jackie Robinson Grant Program will accept applications through ...