HONOLULU — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army ...

Jackie Robinson is celebrated as the trailblazer ... During World War II, Robinson served in the U.S. Army, an experience that exposed him to different cultures and traditions.

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete ... Robinson was drafted and served in the Army. Robinson was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas for a bit, and in 2016 the base named its softball field ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first ... Brown was discharged from the Army in 1947, reported to the Dodgers' spring training ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

According to Lindbergh, Brown was discharged from the Army in 1947 ... decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first, partly ...