1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round split decision to capture the world middleweight boxing title. 1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are elected into baseball’s Hall of Fame.

1960 — Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson in a 15-round split decision to capture the world middleweight boxing title. 1962 — Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson are elected into baseball’s ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson ... coach Ray Richards told the Santa Cruz Evening News in the preseason. Soon, UCLA's offense was based around Robinson.

Boxing is on its way back to the great days of the sport and one name for some still sits on top of the mountain.

As careers stand; his was truly exceptional. Encompassing an incredible 200 professional bouts – over a twenty-five-year period (1940-1965); Sugar Ray Robinson represented boxing majesty. His ring ...

Guitarist Rodney Sheppard of Sugar Ray is 58. Rapper-producer Erick Sermon ... Blue,” ″The Jamie Foxx Show”) is 58. Singer Dawn Robinson (En Vogue, Lucy Pearl) is 56. Actor Gina Tognoni ...

Britain's Randolph Turpin won the world middleweight title from Sugar Ray Robinson. This was Robinson's last fight on a whistlestop tour of Europe in which he'd won six non-title bouts.

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

New York Waterway is christening the newest addition to its fleet, named after one of the most groundbreaking athletes of all ...

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

Jackie Robinson’s journey to the majors was anything but easy. As the first Black player in the modern era of Major League Baseball, he endured racial slurs, hate mail, death threats ...