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 ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

January 31 is the birthday of Jackie Robinson, the pioneering baseball player who broke the color barrier. The first time he did so was during spring training in Daytona Beach. That stadium is now ...

Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker.

Friday’s fundraiser happened on Jackie Robinson’s birthday in his hometown of Cairo. Chipper Jones is a former Atlanta Braves slugger and a hall-of-fame baseball player. He played for the ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

Lyle Krall once walked past Jackie Robinson as he sat in a hotel lobby and wrote in his journal during spring training. It’s ...

Brown homered the following season, in his 66th career game and about a month prior to his 18th birthday ... first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won ...