— -- This story has been corrected. Read below. An entrepreneur says he has unearthed the sports equivalent of the Emancipation Proclamation: one of the original contracts Jackie Robinson signed ...
The Dodgers might not be in Brooklyn anymore, but the memory of their most famous player lives on in the annals of baseball history. This spring is the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking ...
Former Major League Baseball player Ralph Branca had the incredible opportunity of being teammates with Jackie ...
Nearly one third of all World Series baseball games have been played in New York City. Twenty-eight of those games were played in the confines of tiny Ebbet’s Field (4.5 acres in size compared to ...
The Dodgers were in Brooklyn the last time the Cubs played in the World Series. In 1949, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle visited Brooklyn Dodgers players at their homes, capturing scenes of them and their ...
1909 — Leon Ames of the New York Giants pitched a no-hitter for 9 1-3 innings on opening day, but lost 3-0 to Brooklyn in 13 innings. 1915 — Rube Marquard of the New York Giants no-hit the Brooklyn ...
SOHO, Manhattan (WABC) -- In Soho today, all eyes will be on the legacy of a legendary Brooklyn Dodger. At long last, the Jackie Robinson Museum is ready to open on Varick Street. The museum doesn't ...
Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers that broke Major League Baseball's color barrier is on public view in New York and soon in other places, as well. The April 11, 1947, document, ...
NEW YORK – Vandals defaced a statue of barrier-breaking baseball star Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn, scrawling a racial slur, a swastika and anti-Semitic language on the figure outside a minor league ...
At about 8:30 A.M. on Wednesday, a manager at MCU Park, the home ballpark of the Brooklyn Cyclones, noticed some very offensive messages written in black marker on their Jackie Robinson statue. On the ...
1909 — Leon Ames of the New York Giants pitched a no-hitter for 9 1-3 innings on opening day, but lost 3-0 to Brooklyn in 13 innings. 1915 — Rube Marquard of the New York Giants no-hit the Brooklyn ...