The Jackie Robinson Art Challenge invites Wisconsin fans under the age of 18 to create an original, artistic expression that captures the spirit of one or more of Jackie Robinson’s values.
The Boston Red Sox will pay tribute to Jackie Robinson on Friday, January 31, on what would have been the 106th birthday for the Hall of Famer. The club will visit 6th – 8th grade students at Joseph P
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee County leaders on Tuesday said public backlash – some of it hateful and racist – has derailed plans for a proposed memorial for Sade Robinson. The proposed memorial is on pause for now, but one county supervisor said it's not over yet.
I want to take a few minutes to tell you about my good friend, Bob Uecker. I should preface these remarks by noting that my personal interactions with Bob were very, very limited, and he likely did not remember any of them. But that does not matter, because he and I spent countless hours together…just apart.
Ichiro Suzuki, a veritable hits machine on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, became the first Japanese player to gain entry into the National Baseball Hall of Fame when he was
1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are elected into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Robinson, the first black to play in the majors, is also the first to enter the Hall. 1968 — The NBA awards expansion franchises to Milwaukee and Phoenix. 1973 — George ...
ET on Tuesday evening, the National Baseball Hall of Fame will reveal who will join Classic Era Committee inductees Dave Parker and Dick Allen in its 2025 class. Qualifying Baseball Writers’ Association of America members had to submit their ballots by New Year’s Eve,
“He’s sort of the film equivalent of Jackie Robinson in sports,” Dennis said. “He becomes the emblematic symbol of what we should all aspire to as Americans, as Black people, as human beings.” He’d been in movies since 1947. But in ...
Baseball Hall of Fame voting results will be revealed Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET on MLB Network, and it is far from certain who will earn induction
Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an immediate end to the “chains of discrimination” that force Black people onto “a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.”
"He's sort of the film equivalent of Jackie Robinson in sports," Dennis said. "He becomes the emblematic symbol of what we should all aspire to as Americans, as Black people, as human beings." He'd been in movies since 1947. But in 1958, under the ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is one of the greatest players of all time. The Basketball Hall of Famer (and Los Angeles Lakers legend) retired after the 1989 season, so