Jackie Robinson

Seattle Mariners' Mitch Garver follows through on an RBI single that scored Randy Arozarena as Texas Rangers catcher Jonah Heim, left, looks on in the sixth inning of a baseball game Sunday, June 29, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Garver’s 12th-inning homer propels Mariners to series win over Rangers

The Mariners took a 3-1 lead in the 10th on RBI singles by Donovan Solano and Garver, but Corey Seager’s two-run shot pulled the Rangers even. The Mariners won the series opener 7-6 in 12 before dropping the middle game 3-2 in 10.
 
Los Angeles Dodgers' Kike Hernandez (8) celebrates with Andy Pages (44) after hitting a two-run home run during the second inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Dodgers’ Hernández and Smith homer, Wrobleski pitches 6 innings of 3-hit ball in 5-1 win over Royals

 
Music artist Nezza sings the national anthem prior to a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie Alcheh, File)

Nezza’s anthem in Spanish at Dodger Stadium ignites debate over team’s immigrant support

 
Murals of baseball legends Minnie Miñoso, second from left, and Jackie Robinson, third from left, are covered with plywood after being defaced in Miami's Overtown neighborhood, Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Miami Marlins join efforts to restore defaced Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso mural

 
Arizona's Tommy Splaine (20) celebrates with Easton Breyfogle (12) after scoring a run during an NCAA super regional college baseball game against North Carolina, Saturday, June 7, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown)

Breaking down the teams playing for national championship at the College World Series

 

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A person walks past murals of baseball legends Minnie Miñoso, second from left, and Jackie Robinson, second from right, covered with plywood after being defaced in Miami's Overtown neighborhood, Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

A mural honoring Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso is defaced with racist graffiti in Miami

 
Former Seattle Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson acknowledges an ovation from the fans as he walks onto the field for the ceremonial first pitch before the Mariners' baseball game against the Oakland Athletics on April 12, 2010, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

Mariners will retire Randy Johnson’s No. 51 during the 2026 season

 
This 1921 file photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, rear left, as Chicago White Sox players, Charles "Swede" Risberg, center left, and Arnold "Chick" Gandil, look on during the investigation of the infamous "Black Sox" scandal in Chicago. (AP Photo/File)

Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think

 
Philadelphia Phillies gather around the batting cage during a baseball workout, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Philadelphia, ahead of the National League Division Series against the New York Mets. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File)

Phillies will honor the 3 Hall of Fame outfielders who all batted .400 in 1894

 
Former Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard smiles before a ceremony honoring him before a baseball game between the Phillies and the Washington Nationals, July 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, file)

Former Phillies slugger Ryan Howard makes pitch for Negro Leagues Baseball Museum expansion

 
Colorado Rockies' Mickey Moniak, bottom, scores past Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Will Smith’s 3-run homer sends Dodgers over major league-worst Rockies 6-2

 
Washington Nationals pitcher Kyle Finnegan reacts after getting the final out of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Jake Irvin’s seven scoreless innings lift Nationals over Pirates

 
A statue of Jackie Robinson is seen at Dodger Stadium on Jackie Robinson Day before a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Colorado Rockies Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson’s legacy on 78th anniversary of breaking color barrier

 
Los Angeles Angels players all wear number 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson Day as they observe the national anthem before a baseball game against the Texas Rangers, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Albert Pena)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Jackie Robinson Day Baseball

 
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. (AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File)

What is Jackie Robinson Day around Major League Baseball and why is it always on April 15?

 
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani (17) bumps his head with first base coach/infield coach Chris Woodward (84) after hitting a single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies in Los Angeles, Monday, April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Dodgers beat Rockies 5-3 but Colorado avoids another shutout in 4th straight loss

 
A massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore depicts U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in, Keystone, S.D. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary were underway. Then came the federal funding cuts

 
A previously unknown portrait, circe 1868, of abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman is unveiled at The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)

National Park Service restores original Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad webpage

 
President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to honor the Major League Baseball 2024 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the East Room of the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ohtani, Betts and World Series champion Dodgers visit Trump at the White House

 
Maj. Lisa Jaster, center, the first Army Reserve female to graduate the Army's Ranger School, stands in formation with other Rangers during an Army Ranger school graduation ceremony, Oct. 16, 2015, in Fort Benning, Ga. (AP Photo/Branden Camp, File)

The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

 
WWII veteran and Navajo Code Talker Peter MacDonald Sr. is photographed at his home on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, Ariz., April 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry

 
Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. (AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File)

Defense Department webpage on Jackie Robinson goes down, then returns amid DEI purge

 
Journalists walk outside of the White House briefing room, in Washington, Tuesday, March 18, 2025.. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Latest: Trump administration targets Maine and University of Pennsylvania over trans athletes

 
FILE - In this March 20, 2019, file photo, Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki pops out in the third inning of Game 1 of the Major League Baseball opening series against the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series

 
Art Schallock poses for a photo in Sonoma, Calif., April 18, 2024. (Wendy Cornejo, Cogir on Napa Road via AP, File)

Former pitcher Schallock, who once replaced Mickey Mantle on the Yankees’ roster, has died

 
Singer Roberta Flack poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 10, 2018. (Photo by Matt Licari/Invision/AP, File)

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning ‘Killing Me Softly’ singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

 
Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a book showing a 1945 photo of him as a Stars and Stripes correspondent in Shanghai, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)

Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98

 

Hall of Fame First Year Eligible Inductees

 

Baseball Hall of Fame Year-by-Year Inductees

 

Tommy Brown, youngest player to homer and last living member of historic 1947 Dodgers, dies at 97

 
In this Sept. 30, 2018, file photo, New York Mets' David Wright returns to the dugout after an on-field ceremony during a baseball game against the Miami Marlins in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

David Wright’s No. 5 to be retired by New York Mets on July 19

 

Jackie Robinson AL Rookies of the Year Stats

 

Jackie Robinson NL Rookie of the Year Stats