Branch Rickey used to say it was better to trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. That may have been the thinking for Bill DeWitt 50 years ago Wednesday when the Reds ...

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.

“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 ...

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He was more prone to fighting back than holding back. That's what Robinson had to do when Dodgers president and general manager Branch Rickey selected him to become the first African-American to ...

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.

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

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 ...

Branch Rickey used to say it was better to trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. That may have been the thinking for Bill DeWitt 50 years ago Wednesday.

He was more prone to fighting back than holding back. That's what Robinson had to do when Dodgers president Branch Rickey selected him to become the first African-American to play in the majors ...