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He was not even the 1st Negro player in MLB history. Why is there no Roberto Clemente Day for Hispanics? What are your thoughts on the subject?
Okay, I'll take the plunge even though I don't know that much about baseball. In the old days blacks couldn't play in the major leagues; they had to stay within "Negro" leagues. That held them back. They could have been successful and famous and had a lot of money but they were held back, officially not allowed.
Jackie Robinson, like many blacks, was treated poorly but he took it with grace and honor. He a great player, a true gentleman and a role model. Let the following posters fill in the rest but that is my take on why Jackie Robinson is to be remembered.
Okay, I'll take the plunge even though I don't know that much about baseball. In the old days blacks couldn't play in the major leagues; they had to stay within "Negro" leagues. That held them back. They could have been successful and famous and had a lot of money but they were held back, officially not allowed.
Jackie Robinson, like many blacks, was treated poorly but he took it with grace and honor. He a great player, a true gentleman and a role model. Let the following posters fill in the rest but that is my take on why Jackie Robinson is to be remembered.
Of course he should be remembered and even have his number retired. I can even understand retiring his #42 on every single team in Baseball. But a yearly day where every single player wears the #42? Doesn't it at some point feel like beating a dead horse just to attract black fans?
Of course he should be remembered and even have his number retired. I can even understand retiring his #42 on every single team in Baseball. But a yearly day where every single player wears the #42? Doesn't it at some point feel like beating a dead horse just to attract black fans?
No. And I hardly think it is to attract black fans. I'm a white Met fan who hasn't been to Citi Field yet, but I'd love to see the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.
There are a few transformative figures in each sport; Jackie Robinson was one.
Of course he should be remembered and even have his number retired. I can even understand retiring his #42 on every single team in Baseball. But a yearly day where every single player wears the #42? Doesn't it at some point feel like beating a dead horse just to attract black fans?
Obviously, it would seem to be that for you. It hadn't struck me that way until you mentioned it in that light.
It is a great day. A magnificent man and baseball player, a black man, broke the color barrier in baseball, and he should always be held on a pedestal and honored. Jackie Robinson was a fine man, a great human being. The treatment of black people was, is, and always will be this country's greatest shame, and ANY event which highlights the greatness of these people in overcoming the ignorance of the time, is supremely important...and don't you forget it either.
A celebration of the great Jackie Robinson is like classical music. The quality of the man and a celebration of him STANDS THE TEST OF TIME.
He was not even the 1st Negro player in MLB history. Why is there no Roberto Clemente Day for Hispanics? What are your thoughts on the subject?
As far as Clemente Day, you do realize there is a difference between ethnicity and race?
I think it is fine. I think he is a central figure in creating the game that baseball is today. More than anyone else, he has probably had the greatest impact on baseball in history so I believe the tribute is fitting. It also helps that he was a very well respected man.
I am sure, like others have mentioned that MLB sees this as a way to market the game to the black audience as well.
Good to see that he is still remembered and honored by baseball fans.
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It should be celebrated till the end of time
