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

When his mother Mallie was told by her half-brother, "If you want to get closer to heaven, visit California," she took her five children West in 1920. Jackie Robinson was the first to letter in ...

And, as always, Opening Day is April 15, which the children in League 42 know if Jackie Robinson Day. “He’s a mythical figure now in American sports culture,’’ Lutz said, “and everybody ...

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 ...