In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... football, basketball and track and field. According to the California Community Colleges website, Robinson batted .417 with 43 runs scored ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first ... basketball, football and track and field. Robinson arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena Junior College ...

Jackie Robinson is celebrated as the trailblazer ... He was a multi-talented athlete who shone in football, track and field, basketball, and, of course, baseball. This innate athletic ability ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest Georgia town to observe the iconic pioneer’s birthdate while further aiding a ...

A 45-year-old suspect was arrested and charged for the alleged theft and destruction of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue erected ... police managed to track down the vehicle at an apartment complex ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.