Robinson kissed his wife, Barbara, on the forehead and left his family at the hotel where they were staying before heading to Municipal Stadium. When he arrived, the 39-year-old two-time MVP went ...

"What Jackie Robinson did changed the game, and it helped change the country," Kurkjian said. Kurkjian relayed a story told by MLB Hall of Famer Frank Robinson. "He said, 'What Jackie taught us ...

“It all started with Frank,” Washington told Cleveland.com. “When you’re the first one, that’s common wisdom and knowledge that you open doors.” Robinson admired Jackie Robinson for ...

Jackie Robinson’s mother was Mallie Robinson. She married Jerry Robinson on November 21, 1909. She was the mother of five children: Edgar Robinson, Frank Robinson, Mack Robinson, Willa Mae ...

Jackie was the youngest of five children—Edgar, Frank, Matthew “Mack,” and Willa Mae—and a little over a year after his birth, Robinson's mother moved the family to Pasadena. 4.

A legendary baseball player's jersey number will be officially retired during a Macon Bacon game on Friday.Accoring to the ...

Frank also adored the Dodgers as a child and frequently attended their baseball games at the legendary Ebbets Field where he watched the likes of Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Gil Hodges.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Few moments in baseball history have been wrapped in the kind of cultural significance that Frank Robinson’s opening day home run carried with it over the wall against the ...

It might be the greatest line in the history of sports movies. There's no evidence that Dodgers legend Pee Wee Reese said these exact words to Jackie Robinson, but in the movie 42, he shares these ...