Ken Burns' New Documentary Debunked a Central Jackie Robinson Myth. Except …

There's something about Jackie Robinson Day that seems to agree with the Cardinals. The team is 11-1 overall and riding a five-game winning streak in games on April 15, the day Major League Baseball honors the legendary Robinson. All players and 

Our most recent collaboration, Jackie Robinson, currently airing on PBS, chronicles Jackie's life both on the field as the first African American to play in the major leagues, and off as a prominent civil rights leader and activist for social change

In his excellent new documentary on Jackie Robinson, which premiered on PBS this week, Ken Burns contends that one of the most enduring images of racial brotherhood in sports—Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a white Kentuckian, putting 

There's something about Jackie Robinson Day that seems to agree with the Cardinals. The team is 11-1 overall and riding a five-game winning streak in games on April 15, the day Major League Baseball honors the legendary Robinson. All players and 

The Milwaukee Brewers line up for the national anthem all wearing the No 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson Day before a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)