Bill Strode Courier-Journal-USA TODAY NETWORK On Monday, I visited the site of old Ebbets Field. The Kansas City Royals are in town to play the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Seventy-eight ...

Fifty years later, all of New York City’s fault lines—race, class, identity, urban planning, the status-jockeying of the outer boroughs—still intersect at Ebbets Field. But it’s not easy ...

Seymour Weiner, the beloved New York Mets fan who embraced jokes about ... And it was in 1947 that he witnessed Jackie Robinson's first hit at Ebbets Field. 'Only 12,000 people were at that ...

Jackie Robinson made history on April 15, 1947, when he broke baseball’s color barrier to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. While winning Rookie of the Year honors and helping the Dodgers ...

On Monday, I visited the site of old Ebbets Field. The Kansas City Royals are in town to play the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. In my household, Jackie Robinson is like Black royalty.

Major League Baseball celebrates one of my biggest heroes on Tuesday. Well, I share this hero with multitudes of others across baseball and beyond. April 15 is much more than your annual tax deadline.