Saturday, April 16, 2011

Baseball honors Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough – San Francisco Chronicle

(04-15) 21:34 PDT — Friday marked the 64th anniversary of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color barrier. To commemorate Robinson’s achievement, Major League Baseball once again had all players wear Robinson’s No. 42.
Robinson was one of the great Americans of the 20th century. “What he accomplished on the baseball field,” A’s pitcher Dallas Braden said, “has kind of taken a backseat, in my opinion, to what

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