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 ...

DAYTONA BEACH — After deciding to invest millions of dollars in Jackie Robinson Ballpark improvements, and to build a new fire station, the city started the process of how to pay for those projects.

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

"Jackie Robinson's impact was greater than just that of baseball. He was a transforming agent and in the face of such hostility and such meanness and violence, he did it with such amazing dignity.