Major League Baseball is marking the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color barrier.
LOS ANGELES -- Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport's color barrier on Monday.
Members of Robinson's family, including his 101-year-old widow, were at ballparks from coast-to-coast to honor him. "He had a big burden in his life to be a professional baseball player but to take on all this negativity, this hate towards him, his wife, his kids and still persevere," Roberts said."I can't say enough of what Jackie Robinson's meant to not only the Black community but the Hispanic community as well," Nationals manager Dave Martinez told the group."He opened the doors for many, many great players, he really did, and he changed the lives of many including myself.
"That meant so much to me," Smith told the players."Whenever there was injustice on that ballfield of any kind I would speak up because he gave me the courage to be able to do that." Smith urged today's MLB players to remember Robinson and his travails, which included being barred from hotels and restaurants because of his skin color as well as on-field verbal abuse from fans and opposing teams.
Hershiser plans to keep the painting at its current home, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
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