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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 18 hours ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
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 ...
Jon Bon Jovi’s kids: Meet his 4 children with Dorothea Hurley
Page Six· 20 hours agoThe high school sweethearts eloped in 1989 and started their family with Stephanie four years later....
Original set of Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers contracts caught in legal dispute
ESPN· 3 days agoJust inside the entrance to the 19,380-square-foot Jackie Robinson Museum in lower Manhattan, a...
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Deadspin· 8 hours 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 ...
Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB
The Hill· 3 days agoNo sport has a closer relationship with statistics than baseball. For decades major league owners...
Trotter: Why MLB's inclusion of Negro Leagues statistics should come with an asterisk
New York Times· 6 days agoThe announcement that Major League Baseball is now integrating statistics from the Negro Leagues...
The Monday After: KSU Stark educator overjoyed as Negro League stats join Baseball HOF
The Canton Repository· 4 days ago– Buck Leonard, acceptance speech, National Baseball Hall of Fame, quoted in "Buck Leonard, the...
Amazon MGM Studios Sets Pic On Kenny Washington, Rams Running Back Who Broke The NFL Color Barrier...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has begun development on a Untitled Kenny Washington film about the...
Ty Cobb Dethroned as Baseball's Batting Champion, Nearly a Century After He Retired
The New York Sun· 6 days agoA baseball historian and author, Ralph Wimbish, remembers how a great Black ballplayer, Buck O’Neil,...
