Today’s Labor Quote: Jackie Robinson

​“In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.”

Robinson, the first Black ballplayer hired by a major league team, played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbetts Field on this date in 1947. Robinson became personally involved in civil rights struggles in the North as well as in the South. Photo Credit: Corbis-Bettmann Archive

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