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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 7 hours ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
Jon Bon Jovi’s kids: Meet his 4 children with Dorothea Hurley
Page Six· 8 hours agoThe high school sweethearts eloped in 1989 and started their family with Stephanie four years later....
Willie Mays has added 10 more hits to his MLB record
CBS News via Yahoo Sports· 10 hours agoMays' record now states he has 3,293 hits, including 10 for the Birmingham Black Barons in 1948, the MLB announced last week. Baseball was segregated...
The fight over Jackie Robinson
Washington Post· 3 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· 1 day agoBaseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last...
Original set of Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers contracts caught in legal dispute
ESPN· 2 days agoJust inside the entrance to the 19,380-square-foot Jackie Robinson Museum in lower Manhattan, a...
Volusia County launches summer food program to give free meals to kids, teens over summer
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoBoys & Girls Club John Dickerson, 308 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (June 3 through Aug. 2; closed...
With Negro League stats, MLB links legends like never before
ESPN· 2 days agoWHEN MLB ANNOUNCED last week that its official statistical record would be updated with the treasure...
Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB
The Hill· 2 days agoNo sport has a closer relationship with statistics than baseball. For decades major league owners...
Why context, truth most important in MLB's integration of Negro League stats | Press Box Wag
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoHe died of a stroke, at 35, a few months before Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers in...