NEW YORK -- Players across Major League Baseball are donning Jackie Robinson's No. 42 - and all of them in Dodger blue this year - for the 75th anniversary of Robinson's big league debut. In New York, ...

A new book examines the baseball great's politics and the pressure he was put under by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey.

Jackie Robinson Day is one of the most iconic days in all of sports. It reminds us of the courage that Jack Roosevelt Robinson possessed as he became the first player to break the color barrier when ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to sportswriter Howard Bryant about Bryant's latest book "Kings and Pawns." ...

Turn back the clock to 1945, and two of baseball's most legendary names, Jackie Robinson and Satchel Paige, were teammates on the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League. For Robinson it was ...

Professional baseball has been around for a very long time, and there's been plenty of legendary hitters to make their way through the annals of history at the plate. The New York Yankees have seen ...

Bethel AME presents its 'Breaking Barriers' health fair and celebrates the life of the late Jackie Robinson on his birthday.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Jackie Robinson's widow says Major League Baseball has yet to fully honor her husband's legacy. "There is a lot more that needs to be done and that can be done in terms of the ...

Frank Robinson, the Hall of Fame outfielder who hit 586 home runs and became a racial pioneer as the first black manager in the major leagues, nearly three decades after Jackie Robinson broke modern ...