After high school, Robinson enrolled at Pasadena Junior College — now Pasadena City College — and was a four-sport star in baseball, football, basketball and track and field. According to the ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

The New Richmond High School Sports ... and varsity baseball. The baseball Lions finished as district champs in 1985 and regional runner-up in 1991 under Robinson. Off the field, Robinson was ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully integrated Major League Baseball. Brown, for his part, refused to partake in a petition started by other Dodgers players who didn't ...