Topic: Jackie Robinson

Willie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80 years, but was also an enormously important figure in American sports, culture and history.

MLB's integration of Negro League statistics made Josh Gibson the new all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS, the league said Wednesday. Other legends also received statistical boosts.

Former Brooklyn Dodgers right-handed pitcher Carl Erskine died Tuesday at a hospital in his hometown of Anderson, Ind.

Legendary baseball slugger Henry "Hank" Aaron was honored Monday with a commemorative "Forever" stamp issued on the 50th anniversary of his greatest achievement, the U.S. Postal Service announced.

Police in Wichita, Kan., say they have arrested a man in connection to the theft and destruction of a statue of baseball great Jackie Robinson in January. Incident is not a hate crime, police say.

MLB and its 30 teams will pay to replace a statue of baseball great Jackie Robinson that was stolen, burned and dismantled earlier this week in Wichita, Kan.

A stolen statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson was found Tuesday, burned and in pieces inside a trash can at a Kansas park, as police search for the vandals who committed the "disgraceful" act.

Major League Baseball legend Larry Doby, a World War II veteran who was the first African American to play in the American League, was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal on Wednesday.

Director Ken Burns says his new PBS docu-series, "The American Buffalo," imparts a message of hope, even though it chronicles the near-extinction of bison.

On July 5, 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League.