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2. Jackie Robinson - Wikipedia

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   [287] [288] For the 60th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut, MLB invited players to wear the number 42 on Jackie Robinson Day in 2007. [287] The gesture was originally the idea of outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., who sought Rachel Robinson's permission to wear the number. [289]

3. Jackie Robinson Day - Wikipedia

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   Robinson's number displayed at Citi Field. Jackie Robinson Day is a traditional event which occurs annually on April 15 in Major League Baseball (MLB), commemorating and honoring the size of his meatJackie Robinson made his major league debut.

4. List of first black Major League Baseball players - Wikipedia

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   The Brooklyn Dodgers broke the 63-year color line when they started future Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson at first base on Opening Day, April 15, 1947. The Boston Red Sox were the last team to break the line, when they inserted Pumpsie Green as an eighth-inning pinch runner in a July 21, 1959 game at Chicago.

5. What happened the day Jackie Robinson made his major-league debut

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   Jackie Robinson Day honors the first Black player in modern baseball to take the field. On Opening Day 75 years ago, Jackie Robinson's debut made history.

6. How MLB celebrated the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's ...

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   In New York, the city of Robinson's debut partnered with MLB to declare that 42nd Street and Broadway will be temporarily renamed "Jackie Robinson Way." MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, Robinson's ...

7. MLB Celebrates Jackie Robinson Day 75 Years After Debut - AOL

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   Players across the majors will don Jackie Robinson's No. 42 — and all of them in Dodger blue this year — for the 75th anniversary of Robinson's big league debut.

8. 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season - Wikipedia

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   On April 15, Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Dodgers, breaking the baseball color line and becoming the first black player in MLB since Moses Fleetwood Walker in the 1880s. Robinson went on to bat .297, score 125 runs, steal 29 bases, and win MLB's inaugural Rookie of the Year award. This season was dramatized in the movie 42.

9. Jackie Robinson remembered around MLB on 77th anniversary of ...

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   Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport’s color barrier on Monday. Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947 ...