Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day on Tuesday. Robinson's No. 42 is retired across the sport, and in Phoenix, the connection to Robinson runs through his former roommate.

Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Dodgers in 1947. Read about his stats, family, death, ...

There's no evidence that Dodgers legend Pee Wee Reese said these exact words to Jackie Robinson, but in the movie 42, he shares these words to the actor playing Robinson, the late Chadwick Boseman ...

Today is Jackie Robinson Day. On April 15, in 1947, Robinson broke the color barrier, debuting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Day is an MLB tribute dating back to 2004. All 30 MLB teams ...

Jackie Robinson wore an Organization for Civil Rights badge when he took part in a Louisville march with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1964. Bill Strode Courier-Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK As Donald ...

LOS ANGELES — The 78th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of Major League Baseball’s color barrier centered on the Los Angeles Dodgers, as it always does. But on Tuesday, the league ...

On that day 76 years ago, Jackie Robinson made his major league debut in Brooklyn, breaking baseball’s color barrier. One man, alone, as columnist Dave Kindred would describe him in The Sporting ...

Branch Rickey, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, signed Jackie Robinson in 1945, breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier. Robinson's signing was a calculated risk, ...