— -- This story has been corrected. Read below. An entrepreneur says he has unearthed the sports equivalent of the Emancipation Proclamation: one of the original contracts Jackie Robinson signed ...

Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. In 1947, he started at first base for the ...

I remember the last time I walked off the field at Dodgertown, knowing that I would probably never return. I thought of the 60 years of going there for Spring Training. It's the greatest spring ...

The most famous uniform number in baseball, not to mention all of sports, is 42, and with good reason. It is the number Jackie Robinson wore when he made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, ...

Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers that broke Major League Baseball's color barrier is on public view in New York and soon in other places, as well. The April 11, 1947, document, ...

On Thursday, April 12, The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) celebrated the anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier by unveiling signs honoring the ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Charles McConnell was preparing to enter 10th grade at Johnson City’s all-Black Langston High School when the avid athlete penned a heartfelt letter to Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Ras Kass joined forces with Smif-N-Wessun for the first time on “42,” a track that blends coast-to-coast energy with a salute to Jackie Robinson. Ras Kass brought the West Coast to Brooklyn’s doorstep ...

In my unhumble opinion, Jackie Robinson is the greatest American in history/­herstory. I met him only once. It was in his later years, at a Long Island University basketball game, which was played at ...