Jackie Robinson, who has retired after a 10-year career, waves as he leaves the clubhouse after collecting his belongings at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn on Jan. 7, 1957.

Robinson, meanwhile, was Rookie of the Year in 1947 and the NL MVP two years later. In his 10 years in the majors, he was either an All-Star or an MVP candidate, or both, in all but one season.

David McMahon and Sarah Burns are producers and directors, with Ken Burns, of PBS' Jackie Robinson. This April 15 will mark the 69th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s barrier-breaking first game ...

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers star since breaking into Major League baseball in 1947, is shown with his wife, Rachel, and their four-year-old son, Jackie Jr., in their home in Stamford, Conn ...

Jackie Robinson was 28 when he broke down Major League Baseball’s 59-year color barrier. He was born Jan. 31, 1919, in Cairo, Ga., the grandson of slaves and the fifth child of his ...

Not viewing Jackie Robinson through the prism of race is like not viewing food through the prism of taste. Yes, Robinson was many things besides a Black man who broke a sport’s color barrier ...

On Jackie Robinson Day in 2022, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “What he did was incredible, but we’ve got to do him right by keep going.” On Jackie Robinson Day in 2023 ...

The first black Major League Baseball player found a friend.

Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line in 1947 and became the first African American to play on a major sports team. On January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia.

We look back at how Jackie Robinson handled racial discrimination on the diamond. “I don’t consider myself a particularly temperamental man,” wrote Jackie Robinson in the winter of 1955 ...

A tribute to Jackie Robinson's Army service was scrubbed from a DOD website. The Pentagon said Wednesday that in "rare cases" it may have deliberately or mistakenly removed some webpages in ...

But Jackie Robinson Day, as currently observed by MLB, has none of that bite. As the league plainly states on its website, “Every year on April 15, Baseball honors Jackie's legacy by celebrating ...