The legacy of Jackie Robinson is so colossal that it still continues to grow in depth and breadth.
On April 15, with every player wearing No. 42 jerseys (the jersey number Robinson wore and in turn, has been retired to honor Robinson) Major League Baseball pays respect and honors the legendary baseball player who changed the world. However, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the start of last year’s MLB season, denying the MLB the opportunity to celebrate Jackie Robinson Day in its traditional on-field fashion.
April 15, 1947, was when Robinson, playing first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, broke the MLB’s color barrier, forever changing the game and society with it.
Remembering Jackie Robinson s 1946 season milb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from milb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jackie Robinson would have supported MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia
The legendary Brooklyn Dodger stood for Black Americans voting rights, six sports historians tell me.
Jackie Robinson, seen here in 1953, would have been totally behind MLB s anti-racism stance.Bettmann via Getty Images file
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Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Georgia to Colorado created shockwaves throughout the sports world. I ve argued that one of the biggest factors in the league’s choice can be boiled down to two words: Jackie Robinson.
Every year on April 15, the sport commemorates the Brooklyn Dodgers player’s historic breaking of the color barrier with Jackie Robinson Day and the last thing MLB wanted was a thousand questions about the hypocrisy of celebrating Robinson while holding its All-Star Game outside Atlanta. (And if you still don’t understand why the state’s newly enacted election law is racist, this thread will be h
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A general view of Truist Park as the National Anthem is performed with a flyover prior to an MLB game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Truist Park on April 9, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Todd Kirkland/Getty Images
The leaders of a black pro-life group have written a letter to Major League Baseball slamming the sports franchise for pulling its annual All-Star Game out Atlanta in the wake of backlash against an election reform bill recently passed in Georgia.
Kevin McGary and Neil Mammen, the co-founders of Every Black Life Matters, an organization that works to “protect black life from conception to death,” wrote an open letter to the MLB asking, “Where is the same courage as Branch Rickey?” They were referring to the late Branch Rickey, who signed Jackie Robinson as the first African American MLB player in 1947.