Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
Indiana teenager John Miley began recording radio sports broadcasts. There are now more than 44,000 of them in his collection.
Louisville's Black history runs deep. From significant contributions to civil rights, culture, and more, here are seven ...
Jaymin Kanzer is the newest member of the Post Independent’s writing team, focusing on the Education and Sports beats. A ...
The Jackie Robinson Parkway meanders nearby ... In his fourth Test he scored an unbeaten 100 in Delhi, and averaged 117 in the series. "I could bat spin fairly well," he says. "You look at the ...
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
Noted actor Mike Wiley brings his interactive one-man show, “Jackie Robinson: A Game Apart,” to the Thomasville Center for ...
Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...
Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...