this week every player on every major league baseball team wore the number 42 to mark 75 years since jackie robinson broke the color barrier. april 15th, 1947 when he took the field as a brooklyn dodger. his debut was a turning point for baseball and for america, quite honesty. we think of it as a watershed moment now, and it is, absolutely it is. but the nation didn t stop that day in awe of robinson s review. in fact, he would face a barrage of abuse including death threats, players deliberately spiking him, racial epithets from fans and others being held at him, but he helped lead the dodgers to the national league pen net and he also won the rookie of the year, an award named for him in both the