In its celebration of Black History Month, MLB Network looks at the careers of Jackie Robinson and Mookie Betts and their ...

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.

Each class read a biography of Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall. They worked together to create a mural.

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that ... "It was probably the only day in history," Sam Maltin wrote in the Pittsburgh Courier, "that a black man ran from a white mob with love ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...

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 ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break the color barrier in baseball, becoming one of the most beloved men in America. Born to tenant farmers in rural Georgia and raised in ...

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

Susan B. Barnes Set on an island in the Halifax River and possessing the charm of days gone by, Jackie Robinson Ballpark is to be visited as much for its rich history as for the enduring appeal of ...