Mykalai Kontilai, who fraudulently used Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers contracts, was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.1 million he stole from investors.

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman, and Dodgers president Branch Rickey after signing a contract in 1950. Robinson more than doubled his salary from $17,000 to $35,000 after winning ...

“Imagine,” Wesley Branch Rickey once said, “a man trained for the law devoting his entire life and energies to something so cosmically unimportant as a game.” As a player, Branch Rickey ...

He was a graduate of James Madison High School in Brooklyn before signing a major league baseball contract with the legendary Branch Rickey and the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was baseball that brought ...

On Jan. 11, the Los Angeles Dodgers made a surprising move, trading infielder Michael Busch, their No. 4 prospect and the reigning Branch Rickey Minor League Player of the Year, to the Chicago ...

President Biden has signed a bill designating the Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Florida, a commemorative site ...

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On Jan. 11, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent shockwaves through their farm system when they sent infielder Michael Busch, their ...

Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player.

Sophomore post Macy Miller scored 8 points in less than a minute to highlight a game-opening 21-2 run that started the ...

Dodgers outfielder Zyhir Hope heads the list of top prospects on the team heading into 2025 per Baseball Prospectus, a list ...