Pictured here is the upcoming Jackie Robinson-themed Nike Griffey 2 MCS baseball cleat expected to hit retailers in April. The standout element of this colorway is a graphic of Ro ...

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 ...

But one key piece of baseball history is off the market right now and is instead in the hands of U.S. marshals: the contract signed by Jackie Robinson, breaking baseball’s color barrier. L.A. Times ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S.

Baseball player and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson has been immortalized in many ways — movies, with a larger than life statue in Jersey City, and baseball players all wear his number 42 on ...

Former NBA player Jackie Lee Robinson promised to transform a vacant lot on the Strip into a world-class arena and resort. The project was never built. Investors are suing to recover millions.

Jim Becker, AP Reporter Who Covered Jackie Robinson and an Underdog Hawaii Football Team, Dies at 98 HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.