| Today is Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball. It was 61 years ago today that Jackie Robinson became the first African American player in the major leagues when he suited up for the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, a couple of miles down Bedford Avenue from where I post this.
Governor Paterson, our first African American governor, will throw out the first pitch tonight at Shea Stadium, where my beloved Mets will take on the Washington Nationals. All players on both teams will wear Robinson's 42 on their jerseys.
This is one of my favorite photographs of all time. it shows Jackie Robinson stealing home. Against the Yankees. In the World Series.
They don't make them like Jackie any more.
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