Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sharon Robinson and Charles Johnson grew up a generation apart in small towns 1,300 miles from each other. The memories they ...

When Dodgertown opened in 1948, one year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, the players shared living quarters and other facilities, no matter what their race. The golf course there ...

In a couple of weeks, I will embark on an annual rite of passage scented with hope, tinted in promise, an enduring fabric as lovely as all spring. I will take a five-hour flight on a cramped plane ...

I remember the last time I walked off the field at Dodgertown, knowing that I would probably never return. I thought of the 60 years of going there for Spring Training. It's the greatest spring ...

Take a drive by Historic Dodgertown in Vero Beach and there seems to be little going on the 80-acre grounds that for 61 years was home to the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers’ spring training. The old ...

Dusty Baker did not need a map when he stepped back onto the old training grounds in Vero Beach. The field layout, the clubhouse corners, even the Florida breeze felt familiar. It had been 30 years ...

Brooklyn Dodger rookies and prospects do calisthenics as part of daily training routine, Vero Beach, Fla., 1948.George Silk—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images With the exception of that team ...

Historic Dodgertown's roots run deep. The spring training home of the Dodgers for 60 years and the place where countless baseball legends have played has roots going back to the days of War World II ...

Today is an exciting day for baseball fans from the East Coast of Florida to the desert heat of Arizona. Fans will line up to get autographs, eat hot dogs, and fathers will bring their sons to the ...

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I’d long heard how much legendary sports broadcaster Vin Scully loved Dodgertown in Vero Beach. Then I read comments Scully made in March 1979, 10 years before tear-jerking lines about heaven between ...