In the pages of this album, players from Latin American Leagues, the Negro Leagues, and Major League Baseball appear alongside each other Robin Morey Baseball card collecting has long been one of the ...

On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson put on his first Brooklyn Dodgers uniform (number 42) and broke the Major League Baseball “color line”. Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey signed a contract with ...

Now that baseball has returned, Joe Posnanski will count down his top 10 moments in baseball history across the 10 weeks of the scheduled regular season — think of it as a companion piece to The ...

Preface: Before 42 -- Coming together. Prairieland of opportunity ; Grasshoppers and hickory sticks ; Birth of a salesman ; Worlds apart ; Over the color line ; Throwing fire ; Showtime ; Nameless ...

This month Major League Baseball is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball. In those six decades since he first walked onto the field wearing the ...

Professional baseball player, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on this day in 1919. As the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, Robinson broke the color line by ...

Introduction: Latinos play America's game -- A national game emerges -- Early maneuvers -- Holding the line -- Baseball should follow the flag -- "Purest bars of Castilian soap" -- Making Cuban stars ...

The following is excerpted from the book "That Happened Here?" by Gerald R. Smith and George Basler, published by the Broome County Historical Society. Copies available at the society’s office in the ...