Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club ‘Diamond Affair’ event features MLB Hall of Famer Chipper Jones
The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote ...
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Cairo native, baseball great Jackie Robinson celebrated at 12th annual JRBGC Diamond Affair
Stephen Francis and Michael Best share how the JRBGC members continue to celebrate Robinson's legacy throughout the year.
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Felix Mantilla, a winner with the ’57 Braves and champion of Milwaukee youth baseball, dies at 90
From the archives:For Little Leaguers, trip to Puerto Rico is about more than baseball Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson also offered his condolences Saturday via social media: "Our city remembers ...
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Here's how Jackie Robinson fueled Montreal to a Minor League title in 1946
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
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In Jackie Robinson's GA hometown, Chipper honors 'trailblazer of epic proportion'
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
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They’re Adorable. And Endangered. Meet the World’s Smallest Monkey: the Pygmy Marmoset
The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum ...
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Former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s chief of staff shot at church in Winston-Salem
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — The former chief of staff for former Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was shot at a church in Winston-Salem, according to police. Krishana Polite was the first Black female ...
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Bob Uecker, known as ‘Mr. Baseball’ and as the legendary voice of the Milwaukee Brewers, dies at age 90
Bob Uecker, the legendary voice of the Milwaukee Brewers who was nicknamed “Mr. Baseball,” has died aged ... laugh and always left people feeling a little better. Nobody was his equal.
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Baseball fans react to the death of Brewers legendary broadcaster Bob Uecker
The entire baseball world felt the shockwaves Thursday when the Milwaukee Brewers announced that legendary broadcaster Bob Uecker had died. Among the tributes was Milwaukee mayor Cavalier Johnson ...
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Tommy Brown, Brooklyn teammate of Jackie Robinson and last surviving member of 1947 Dodgers, dies at 97
Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully integrated Major League Baseball. Brown, for his part, refused to partake in a petition started by other Dodgers players who didn't ...
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Bob Uecker, legendary voice of the Brewers and ‘Mr. Baseball,’ dead at 90
Bob Uecker, who turned what was, by his own admission, a mediocre baseball career into a 54-year broadcasting gig with the Milwaukee Brewers that earned him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame and ...
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How did Bob Uecker get the nickname 'Mr. Baseball'?
A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. I STOLE THEM BOTH. YEAH. JOHNNY CARSON ACTUALLY WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE HIM THE FAMOUS MR. BASEBALL NICKNAME. UECKER MADE NEARLY 1 To many, Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker was ...