New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...
Robinson joined a Dodgers club that went on a run of sustained ... Jackie was a great ball player." Brooklyn traded Brown to the Philadelphia Phillies in June 1951, and he appeared in 96 games with ...
Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...
Get to the Bag spotlights the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson beyond baseball. The film blends the lyrical narrative of ...
Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest ... time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition ...
Brooklyn will try to end its seven-game home slide when the Nets play New York. The teams play Tuesday for the first time ...
Jackie Robinson signs what is, at the time, the highest-paying contract in the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was for $35,000 per year (still just $455,000 in today’s dollars). Sheesh—how ...
When he did not win the job in camp, it went to Robinson. Ultimately Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first ...