All players, managers, coaches and umpires will wear No. 42 on Thursday to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day. In 1947, Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut and broke the sport’s color barrier.
Tommy Lasorda, the Los Angeles Dodgers icon who managed the team to a pair of World Series titles in 1981 and 1988, died Thursday night at the age of 93.
Vin Scully joined the widow of Jackie Robinson to honor the player who broke baseball's color barrier during Robinson's centennial birthday celebration Monday night.
Don Newcombe, the hard-throwing Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who was one of the first black players in the MLB and won the Rookie of the Year, MVP and Cy Young awards, has died. He was 92.
Handsome Ransom Jackson is full of stories. The 90-year old former big leaguer is happy to talk about playing for the Chicago Cubs in the mid 1950s when a young rookie shortstop named Ernie Banks broke into the majors. A few years later, Jackson had been traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers and was seen as the eventual replacement for Jackie Robinson...
Former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca joined Steve Monday afternoon to reflect on his career and the 60th anniversary of the "Shot Heard 'round the World."