(ThyBlackMan.com) In 1947, legendary baseball star and Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier, becoming the ...

Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in MLB in 1947, won the NL MVP in 1949. By that standard, few people -- and no athlete -- in the 20th century has impacted more lives. Robinson lit the ...

Jackie Robinson is known as the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States in modern baseball ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...

Jackie Robinson made history on April 15, 1947, when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. While winning Rookie of the Year honors and helping the Dodgers ...

Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier.

Besides making history like Jackie Robinson, Althea Gibson felt the same sting of racism as the baseball pioneer did just a few years before her. She also later cracked the color barrier at Wimbledon.

THROUGH THIS BILL, THEY’RE HOPING TO HONOR THE LOCATION WHERE JACKIE ROBINSON BROKE THE COLOR BARRIER AND PLAYED HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL GAME. JACKIE ROBINSON PLAYED WITH WHITE TEAMMATES, WHICH THAT ...

It is here that in 1946 Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he played in the first integrated, professional baseball game. Today, the ballpark is home to the Daytona Tortugas minor league ...

Efforts to declare Jackie Robinson Ballpark a National Commemorative Site continue, as the Senate passes a bipartisan bill, ...

The U.S. House passed a bill this week that – with Senate approval, possibly Friday – would put Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach on the base path to becoming a National Historic Landmark.

The registry is separate from the landmark designation. "H.R. 8012 honors the location where Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier ... at the then-named Daytona City Island Ballpark ...