Many are unaware that before breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, Jackie Robinson played second base for the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn Dodgers farm team in Québec, Canada. It is ...
MONTREAL , After a spring training in the segregated South, newlywed Rachel Robinson went to look at an apartment in a white neighborhood in Montreal. A French-Canadian woman who spoke English ...
In 1950, Robinson starred in a Hollywood film. He played himself in the movie, “The Jackie Robinson Story.” Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on Friday, Jan. 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia, ...