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In 2004, the league established Jackie Robinson Day as a celebration of the player who broke MLB's color barrier. Festivities were held at 13 ballparks to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day in 2004.
Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...
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Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier.
As Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson and his pioneering contributions to the game, I can’t help but think about the fact that the league is reporting a historically low number of ...
Nearly three weeks after the bronze statue of Jackie Robinson at a youth league baseball facility in Wichita was stolen and later found destroyed, an arrest was announced in the case Tuesday. The ...
The next film in the New Ulm Film Society’s lineup of baseball movies is “42,” a true story about one the most important chapters in sports history. The screening begins at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, ...
The Pentagon has restored some of its webpages that highlighted Black veterans such as Jackie Robinson, the Tuskegee Airmen and Vietnam-era Medal of Honor recipient Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers ...
DAYTONA BEACH — In October of 2022, a construction-only estimate for the first phase of major upgrades at Jackie Robinson Ballpark was $17 million. Two and a half years later, that cost has ...