“People like Jackie Robinson was a great reminder every single morning, every single evening that we have to do the right thing every day.” “It seems like we’re more divided than ever,” King said. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, director Spike Lee (wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers cap) and former tennis star Billie Jean King also were on hand. “I wouldn’t have been able to live out my dream of playing Major League Baseball.” “Without him, there would be no me,” Sabathia said. The museum also holds a collection of 40,000 images and 450 hours of footage.Ī 15-piece band played at the ceremony, attended by former pitcher CC Sabathia, former NL president Len Coleman and former Mets owner Fred Wilpon along with players’ association head Tony Clark and Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch. 42 and because he had amazing wife that understood that dream and vision.”Ī gala dinner was held Monday night to preview the museum, which contains 350 artifacts, including playing equipment and items such as Robinson’s 1946 minor league contract for $600 a month and his 1947 rookie contract for a $5,000 salary.
And this man and wife took that dream and forced America and baseball to say you’re not going to be a dream on a piece of paper, you’re going to be a dream in life. “There’s nowhere on the globe where dream is attached to our name - or our country’s name,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. Robinson, who died in 1972, had an impact beyond baseball, galvanizing a significant slice of American public opinion and boosting the civil rights movement. “The signs of white only have been taken down, but the complexity of equal opportunity still exists.” “The issues in baseball, the issues that Jackie Robinson challenged in 1947, they’re still with us,” David Robinson said. Her 72-year-old daughter, Sharon, also looked on from a wheelchair and 70-year-old son David spoke to the crowd of about 200 sitting on folding chairs arrayed in a closed-off section of Varick Street, a major New York thoroughfare where the 19,380-square-foot museum is located.
Rachel Robinson, who turned 100 on July 19, watched the half-hour outdoor celebration from a wheelchair in the 80-degree heat, then cut a ribbon to cap a project launched in 2008. NEW YORK (AP) - Long dreamed about and in development for longer than the big league career of the man it honors, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened Tuesday in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the 100-year-old wife of the barrier-breaking ballplayer and two of his children.
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