A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he ... racism elsewhere throughout the season. In honor of Black History Month, MLB.com retold the story of Robinson’s appearance ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black ... While 1939 was still relatively early in the sport's history, it was the first time UCLA's football team had ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

Michigan Public Radio Network Capitol Bureau Reporter Colin Jackson presents today's Black History Moment. It turns out ...

Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...

Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ... Undoubtedly, if there is one person in sports history that deserves this praise, it is Robinson. In a ...

“Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach has been a landmark in the history of the Civil Rights movement and Florida,” Waltz said. "On March 17, 1946, Jackie Robinson changed professional ...

Sometimes, life is all about being at the right place at the right time. Twelve-year-old George Bates visited Daytona Beach in 1946 when he and his family went to a ballgame. "My brother and I ...

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