Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. In 1947, he started at first base for the then Brooklyn Dodgers.

Dy’lan Daniels fell one win shy of stepping foot on the loanDepot park field as a teenage ballplayer. Daniels, who was a member of the Marlins’ RBI program for three years of high school before ...

The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club has long been a beacon of hope for youth in Grady County. Providing endless opportunities and outlets for children to express themselves through the arts, ...

The spirit of Jackie Robinson was alive and well at his namesake Training Complex in Vero Beach, Fla., over the weekend ...

Charles McConnell was preparing to enter 10th grade at Johnson City’s all-Black Langston High School when the avid athlete penned a heartfelt letter to Brooklyn ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: Feb. 12, 2015 The ...

Howard Bryant joins Edge of Sports to talk about his new book, Kings and Pawns Dave Zirin Where sports and politics collide, hosted by Nation magazine Sports Editor Dave Zirin This week, we talk to ...

The rendering above illustrates the $30-million renovation of Jackie Robinson Ballpark, which is nearing completion in Daytona Beach, Fla. February 9, 2026 In late 2020, Major League Baseball ...

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 ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson, born January 31, 1919, was the first University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) student to letter in four different sports in the same school year. To date, Robinson is ...

LOS ANGELES — In 1970, two years before he died, Jackie Robinson spoke at his son's high school graduation. "In a land where we declare that we have liberty and justice for all," Robinson said, "it ...