Without Jackie Robinson, the game of baseball and the spirit it embodies would not look or feel nearly the same as it does ...

February also marked the month of Robinson’s death in 2019. Robinson died at the age of 83 in Los Angeles. That same week, Jackie Robinson’s daughter Sharon, an educator and author of children ...

Donald Trump has announced that Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson will ... heavyweight champion and activist died at the age of 74 back in 2016. Robinson, meanwhile, became the first ...

Jackie Robinson was starring on the baseball field ... ruled baseball for 23 years and enabled major league segregation. Soon after Landis died in November 1944, Branch Rickey signed Robinson ...

While Jackie Robinson would go on to break Major League ... who came from the same group of African-Americans who fought and died for the United States in World War II. As a result, Washington ...

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier ... His father, Sylvester, who died last August, was a well-known jockey in Louisiana. Among his mounts was Hallowed Dreams, a ...

Art Schallock, a left-handed pitcher who in 1951 replaced future Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle on the Yankees' roster and had ...

“I had been looking for the individual that I felt could be the Jackie Robinson of business ... Tragically, Lewis’s life was cut short when he died of brain cancer in 1993 at the age of ...

She died at home surrounded by her family ... Flack sang at the funeral of Jackie Robinson, major league baseball’s first Black player, and was among the many guest performers on the feminist ...

Flack’s death was announced by a spokesperson ... She sang about civil rights at Jackie Robinson’s funeral and love at benefit concerts for AIDS research and inner-city education projects.