“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 ...

Chadwick Boseman died on Jackie Robinson Day, seven years after he starred as the baseball icon in the 2013 movie 42. The Black Panther star died of colon cancer four years after his first ...

Until his death in 1972, Robinson was a prominent figure in anything he believed in. Fifty years later, baseball is finally paying tribute to a man who at one time was unwanted. Although these ...

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 ...