NEW YORK -- Players across Major League Baseball are donning Jackie Robinson's No. 42 - and all of them in Dodger blue this year - for the 75th anniversary of Robinson's big league debut. In New York, ...
LOS ANGELES -- Jackie Robinson Day was celebrated even in space this year. While Rachel Robinson, the player's widow, and commissioner Rob Manfred were set to honor Robinson in a ceremony at Dodger ...
… However, here in advance are five aspects of Jackie Robinson’s tumultuous, politically complicated life story I fear won’t make the film’s final cut. 1. Branch Rickey was no saint. Based upon ...
I can understand why many progressives love the new Jackie Robinson movie—but I can’t agree. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment. This week in Major League Baseball was Jackie Robinson Day.
Next week will be the 104th birthday of Dodgers legend, Jackie Robinson, as many remember his birthday on January 31. To commemorate his greatness and the legacy he left in the world of baseball and ...
LOS ANGELES (AP)-- There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' ...
Hip-Hop and baseball have always shared a blue-collar heartbeat—built on discipline, legacy, and surviving pressure when the lights burn hottest. That’s the spirit behind 42, the new single linking ...
If Roger Ebert were still with us, the hunch here is that he'd give "42" a thumbs up, and it would be next-to-impossible, and pointless, to disagree. Starring Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, who ...
Keeping the “memory and values alive for today’s ... players and fans.” Seventy-five years ago, Jackie Robinson debuted as a first baseman with the Brooklyn Dodgers while donning jersey No. 42.