The widow of L.A. sports great Tommy Hawkins barely escaped the Palisades fire, which destroyed the home she lived in with ...

St. Lucie County and Indian River County benefit from not only New York Mets, but MLB events at Jackie Robinson Training ...

Grambling State’s Chris Marcellus can look around the Jackie Robinson Training Complex and compare his growth as a player to ...

Popkins, the Blue Jays are also aiming to draw more from the talent already in place, by using his strengths in swing ...

February is Black History Month; as we celebrate, we honor the trailblazers who defied the odds, shattered stereotypes, and ...

From Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, the achievements of Black athletes have had a role in advancing civil rights.

Antiques Roadshow expert Jasmani Francis was left stunned when he was shown a series of letters from baseball legend Jackie ...

Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck, recognizing the positive impact of baseball integration to the bottom line of baseball, were pioneers in signing stars like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, ...

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 ...

His obituary, written by Audrey McAvoy at AP, included this about Becker at age 20 covering Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Dodgers on April 15, 1947: Becker, who was just 20 at the time ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a rich history with breaking barriers, dating back to time in Brooklyn and eventually their move to West Coast in the mid-1950s. Starting with Jackie Robinson ...

In 1948, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers hit the first homerun at Dodgertown, the team's new spring training home in Vero Beach. Batting leadoff, he sent the second pitch of the game deep ...