New York Yankees players wearing 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson Day take the field before a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in New York.

The Sporting News covered Jackie Robinson from his signing as a minor leaguer through his historic debut, Hall of Fame career and on to today, Jackie Robinson Day.

Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier was No. 1. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility. “Today, everything is complete,” he ...

Slowly, through the vehicle of baseball, courageous men like Jackie Robinson, Lary Doby, Hank Thompson, Sam Jethroe, Monte Irvin, Ernie Banks and Gene Baker, just to name a few, shattered Jim Crow ...

Alfred Masters was sworn in to the Marine Corps in 1942. Alfreda Masters, the daughter of the first enlisted Black man to serve in the Marine Corps, told ABC News she finds it "unbelievable" that the ...

Hall of Famer Monte Irvin wrote. “He wasn’t flashy, ... Jackie Robinson broke the color line three years later. The game integrated slowly.

Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame: BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; TGE: Today’s Game Era (1998-present) committee; VC: Elected by the… ...

The Eagles featured players that would go on to become MLB stars like Larry Doby, Don Newcombe and Monte Irvin. However, when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, most of the Eagles ...

Major League Baseball wasn’t integrated until 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ... Monte Irvin, Roy Campanella, Willard Brown and Minnie Minoso. ...

We did something on, not just, Jackie Robinson is always part of the conversation, but Larry Doby, New Jersey, Paterson and also Monte Irvin. Check out our Remember Them about the two of those ...

Police announced Tuesday, Feb. 13, the arrest of a man in the theft of the Jackie Robinson statue that later was found dismantled and burned. ... Dear Asshole, Monte [Irvin] and Yogi [Berra] ...