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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
Rebuilt Jackie Robinson statue to be unveiled Aug. 5
ABC News· 1 hour agoA youth baseball league in Wichita, Kansas, will unveil a new Jackie Robinson statue Aug. 5, replacing the original work that was cut from the base, removed ...
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· 1 day 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...
Bill Swank: San Diego's Walter McCoy was a living link to Negro Leagues, baseball history
U-T San Diego· 7 hours agoEditor’s note: Last week, Major League Baseball announced that Negro Leagues statistics from 1920-48...
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...
Jayla's journey: For this Southern Guilford grad, it did take a village — her older siblings
Greensboro News & Record· 17 hours agoJayla Logan tries not to notice other girls with their mothers, but it happens. As ceremonies run...
Leyland's No. 10 to be retired by Tigers Aug. 3
ESPN· 4 days agoJim Leyland's No. 10 will be retired by the Detroit Tigers during a ceremony on Aug. 3. The team announced the honor Monday, the 10th number retired by...
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Deadspin· 19 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 ...