Jackie Robinson was the first to break baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago Tuesday. His legacy continues to inspire people inside the major leagues — and outside, too.

Yet in the weeks before the Lamesa Lobos began their 1951 season, in minor-league baseball’s Class C West Texas–New Mexico League, a local newspaper broke form. John Walker Wingate was sought out for ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport’s color barrier on Monday. Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April ...

A baseball scholar has found evidence that integrated games were once seemingly routine in the Kingston area, before the ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The ball clubs have departed their springtime nests, pennant hopes are flowering like daffodils, the ancient game is springing to life again. For even the lowliest teams the future ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson was the ...

Shohei Ohtani, center, and Dodgers teammates listen to NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during an event to commemorate Jackie Robinson Day before Tuesday’s game at Dodger Stadium under Robinson’s statue ...

LOS ANGELES -- Jackie Robinson was the first to break baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers 78 years ago Tuesday. His legacy continues to inspire people inside the major leagues -- and ...