Jackie Robinson, is shown in post-swing position in front of the stands Bettmann/CORBIS On April 18, 1946, Jackie Robinson, wearing a Montreal Royals jersey (#9) stepped to the plate in front of ...

On April 10, 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers announced the purchase of Jackie Robinson's contract from their Montreal farm team. Dated April 11, it was "approved" April 15, the day he made his big ...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson, born Jan. 31, 1919, in Georgia, ... 1946, after reporting with the Montreal Royals of the International League in Sanford, Fla.

Robinson emerged from that meeting with a formal agreement to sign a contract with the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' top minor-league affiliate, for the 1946 season and to do so by Nov. 1.

Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File. By The Associated Press March 19, 2025 1 minute to ...

The first contract Jackie Robinson signed along with Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey on Oct. 23, 1945, was an agreement to play for the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers’ top farm club. The ...

Read TIME's 1947 cover story on baseball legend Jackie Robinson. On the baseball legend's rookie ... Montreal won the pennant, and the fans, after one game, chaired Jackie and carried him around ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. ... A member of the Montreal Royals, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Triple-A affiliate, ...

Robinson is known for breaking the color barrier in the modern era of MLB. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues and for the minor league Montreal Royals before being signed ...

A tribute to Jackie Robinson's Army service was scrubbed from a DOD website. The Pentagon said Wednesday that in "rare cases" it may have deliberately or mistakenly removed some webpages in ...