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Jackie Robinson Foundation Announces Centennial Celebration in 2019

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06 Mar 1948, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic --- Original caption: On his first day of spring training with the Brooklyn Dodgers here, Jackie Robinson, Negro first baseman, proved a prime favorite with San Dominicans. He is shown here giving his autograph to some of the natives who watched the Dodgers workout at the Trujillo High School grounds. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) will commemorate the one hundredth birthday of its namesake with a year-long schedule of events in 2019 that will benefit the organization’s scholarship and education programs as well as the future Jackie Robinson Museum. As announced today by JRF President Della Britton Baeza, the Foundation will host the ...

Casting Call For Emmy Award Winning Producer, Mark Burnett And Bear Grylls’ Eco Challenge 2019

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Team Submissions are now open for Eco-Challenge 2019, an endurance competition that will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in over 200 countries and territories. Using state of the art cinematography, Eco-Challenge 2019 tests the limits of human physical and mental endurance in the most rugged natural landscapes on earth. ...

Second film of new Mississippi sports documentary series to air statewide next week

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The second film of a new original sports documentary series called “Between the Pines,” tracing the rich history, tradition and passion behind Mississippi’s greatest sports stories, will air on television stations across the state and in Memphis next weekend. “The Vet,” produced by Bash Brothers Media and presented by C Spire, airs on Nov. 17 and ...