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There are people that know of my uncle Jack, my grandfather, but this is my family,” Caprice Lee, granddaughter of Mack Robinson and niece of Jackie Robinson, said during a City Council meeting ...
Lutz also received words of encouragement from Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City, Mo., who had visited League 42 in 2022 and taken a picture with the Robinson statue.
On Jackie Robinson Day at Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Aug. 28, 2020, Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates players wore No. 42 in honor of the player who broke baseball's color barrier.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Sometimes, life is all about being at the right place at the right time. Twelve-year-old George Bates visited Daytona Beach in 1946 when he and his family went to a ...
In this Feb. 17, 2014 file photo, Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson, answers questions during an appearance at the Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet at the Lakewood Rod & Gun ...
Jackie Robinson wore an Organization for Civil Rights badge when he took part in a Louisville march with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1964. Bill Strode Courier-Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK As Donald ...
That passed, too, but three more years and one pandemic later, the Jackie Robinson Museum is finally, as of Monday, officially open. The delay in opening the museum’s doors wasn’t for lack of ...