Author: Cesar Brioso, USA TODAY

Before breaking baseball’s color barrier in 1947, Jackie Robinson trained in Havana, Cuba with the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Montreal Royals farm team.

Jerry West, 83, reflects on the grief caused by the deaths of fellow Los Angeles Lakers icons Kobe Bryant and Elgin Baylor within the past two years.

Dan Reeves, who had a 38-year career as an NFL player and coach, has died, his family has said. He was 77.

Tony Oliva lived to see the day he was finally elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fellow Cuban star Minnie Miñoso didn’t. They will go in together.

In 1946, the Mexican League raided MLB talent, precipitating an early challenge to baseball’s reserve clause and reshaping the game in Latin America.

One month after the last MLB game was played at the Polo Grounds in 1963, the historic ballpark hosted its baseball finale — a “Latino All-Star Game.”

That big names got snubbed in the best all-time Latino lineups — even when divided by country — illustrates the impact Latino players have had in MLB.

Minnie Miñoso, MLB’s first Black Latino superstar, is considered as the “Jackie Robinson” for Latino baseball players.

The father of Saints super fan Jarrius Robertson was sentenced to 8 years for drug trafficking and capitalizing on son’s illness with a phony charity.