A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2009. We present it here as Major League Baseball commemorates the ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball held their annual celebration of Jackie Robinson on April 15, the ...

1945 — Albert B. “Happy” Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, is elected baseball commissioner by a unanimous vote of the major league club owners. Chandler is elected to a seven-year term and ...