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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 2 days ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
Rebuilt Jackie Robinson statue to be unveiled on August 5
ABC News· 8 hours agoA youth baseball league in Wichita, Kansas, will unveil a new Jackie Robinson statue on Aug. 5, replacing the original work that was cut from the base, ...
The fight over Jackie Robinson
Washington Post· 4 days agoRachel Robinson couldn’t give her blessing at first. At that point, it had been nearly 50 years since her husband, Jackie Robinson, died and more than 70...
Baseball legend Willie Mays says it’s ‘amazing’ he has 10 more hits after MLB integrated Negro...
CNN.com· 2 days agoBaseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last...
Jon Bon Jovi’s kids: Meet his 4 children with Dorothea Hurley
Page Six· 2 days agoThe high school sweethearts eloped in 1989 and started their family with Stephanie four years later....
Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB
The Hill· 4 days agoNo sport has a closer relationship with statistics than baseball. For decades major league owners...
With Negro League stats, MLB links legends like never before
ESPN· 3 days agoWHEN MLB ANNOUNCED last week that its official statistical record would be updated with the treasure...
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Deadspin· 1 day agoJackie Robinson wasn’t the only Black baseball player to suit up in the big leagues in 1947. After he broke the color line and became the first Black baseball ...
Original set of Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers contracts caught in legal dispute
ESPN· 4 days agoJust inside the entrance to the 19,380-square-foot Jackie Robinson Museum in lower Manhattan, a...
Bill Swank: San Diego's Walter McCoy was a living link to Negro Leagues, baseball history
U-T San Diego· 13 hours agoEditor’s note: Last week, Major League Baseball announced that Negro Leagues statistics from 1920-48...