Tommy Brown, the last surviving member of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers and the youngest player to homer in a Major League ...

A Brooklyn native who starred for the 'Boys of Summer'-era Dodgers before going on to play for the Cubs and Phillies has ...

Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball and is a celebrated hero of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Additionally, Brown was the last living major leaguer whose career began during World War II. With able-bodied men in short ...

Archie Wade integrated the University of Alabama's faculty and helped Paul W. "Bear" recruit his first Black players.

Jackie Robinson is known as the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the United States in modern baseball ...

Brooklyn Dodger Tommy "Buckshot" Brown died this morning, after contracting pneumonia while convalescing from a fall, his ...

Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach is officially a Commemorative Site after President Joe Biden signed H.R. 8012 on ...