“I had been looking for the individual that I felt could be the Jackie Robinson of business ... Tragically, Lewis’s life was cut short when he died of brain cancer in 1993 at the age of ...

Until his death in 1972, Robinson was a prominent figure in anything he believed in. Fifty years later, baseball is finally paying tribute to a man who at one time was unwanted. Although these ...

Without Jackie Robinson, the game of baseball and the spirit it embodies would not look or feel nearly the same as it does ...

Jackie Robinson led the way for generations of black ... "Robinson was the target of racial epithets and flying cleats, of hate letters and death threats, of pitchers throwing at his head and ...

Later as a writer for Associated Press he covered Robinson’s first game in which the star athlete broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. “I was 20 on Jackie ...