MLB honours Jackie Robinson
Major League Baseball did not let its COVID-19 shutdown stop it from recognizing one of sport's greatest pioneers in Jackie Robinson.
Players active and retired chimed in on social media to show their support and thanks for Robinson, the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era.
Robinson broke the baseball colour barrier when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
In 1997, 41 years after Robinson retired from the MLB, the league retired his number 42. Making him the first professional athlete in any sport to be honoured in that matter.
The MLB also adopted the new annual tradition, "Jackie Robinson Day", for the first time on April 15, 2004, on which every player on every team would wear No. 42.
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