NEW YORK - 1946. Jackie Robinson is the featured star on the cover of Negro Baseball magazine for 1946. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images) Jackie Robinson didn't just change ...
On Tuesday, all across the baseball world, Jackie Robinson Day commemorations will once again take center stage. Since 2004, April 15 has been an obligatory notch on the baseball calendar, an ...
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on Friday, Jan. 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia, where his family sharecropped. The following year, when his parents separated, his mother and her five ...
Robinson struggles to maintain dignity trying to break organized baseball’s color barrier. Starring the baseball legend himself, the film shows his struggles to maintain his dignity while enduring the ...