The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers ... repeatedly lied to investors to raise money for the company — money which Kontilai routinely stole to fund his lavish ...

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials ...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to break ... writing newspaper columns, raising money for the NAACP and jailed protesters, supporting the political candidates he believed would ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Photo shows paymaster, George Dean handing weekly expense money to L to R Jim Romano ... on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first ...

Courtesy of Jackie Robinson Training Complex Jackie Robinson slides during Spring Training at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Fla. in 195 ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...