COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — When Jim Kaat spoke to the thousands of fans at his Hall of Fame induction ... gallery that showcases Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson and Lefty Grove, the hero of Kaat’s ...

It’s for that reason why Jackie Robinson has not one but two Hall of Fame plaques ... was more than enough to secure his place in Cooperstown. But when Robinson was inducted on his first ...

This column, by Chicago Defender sports writer A.S. “Doc” Young, first appeared in the Aug. 4, 1962, issue of The Sporting News, after Jackie Robinson had broken another color barrier ...

Brooklyn Dodgers superstar Jackie Robinson, who’d broken baseball’s color barrier just 15 years earlier, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In his induction speech in Cooperstown ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y — When Jim Kaat was elected to the Hall of Fame ... big man for the Spanish ballplayers. He was like Jackie Robinson for us," Oliva said. "This is special for me.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — As he neared the last stop on his first guided tour of the National Baseball Hall of Fame ... While looking at an exhibit on Jackie Robinson, the first winner of the Rookie ...

“You don’t want to play ping-pong with Jackie.” Robinson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1962. Robinson’s place is forever cemented ...

but that’s the goal of every plaque that hangs in the rotunda of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. In just a few weeks time, Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, Jim Leyland and Joe ...