Major league baseball has a remarkable progress from the days of isolation and paranoid, but some of the movement of the top, 'said work is incomplete.
Commissioner bud selig, hall, the current players pleasure Jackie Robinson and other civil rights heroes at the luncheon in downtown Chicago MLB game between civil rights before the white sox, the Texas rangers on Saturday night.
"We salute pioneer enrich our game, by extension, our culture," selig said."Their courage, their leader, is crucial to the transformation of social institutions, baseball is today. They are many brave people who help to change the direction of our country."
Weekend activities by the Chicago white sox, coincides with the 50th anniversary of the commemoration of the civil rights march in Washington and Dr Martin Luther King's landmark "I have a dream" speech.
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Seliger praised Robinson's legacy, broke the apartheid in 1947 with the brooklyn dodgers.
"Dawn of Jackie's professional baseball is still the most proud, the most powerful moments," selig said."Our game setting the Jackie's legacy as an idol and learn how to let each new generation a baseball player has changed the course of the United States of America through sheer force him for his good example."
Robinson's number 42 retired all 30 major league baseball club.
After his retirement in 1957, Robinson to private business.But daughter Sharon said Robinson also promised myself as a fundraiser, the naacp and as a civil rights activist.
"We must have a legacy as a family and our heritage is the social change," said Sharon Robinson, her father told her."And our first task as a family sports will be in Washington in March (1963). This is my brother and I introduced the civil rights movement.
"So, the 50th anniversary of the establishment is very important to me, because it not only occasional America but it has changed my family."
Frank Robinson, break the color barrier is the first African American major league baseball manager, talks about his responsibility and Jackie Robinson's legendary dodge after retirement.
"I sat down with him and talked for two hours about baseball and life and games away from the scene," frank said, now a major league executive Robinson."We talk about life away from the scene, what responsibility I come in (management) and people of color appear in the time of the game."
The Texas manager RON Washington there is a team player from nine different countries.However, Robinson's message resonates.
"It is very important, there is one thing we have to do is to each and every day is to make sure they understand the history of the game, so they can be thankful where they are and what they can do," Washington said."Because there was a time when they can't do."
Before Hank Aaron said baseball for the home run king need to continue to ensure that a small number of players feel welcome.
"I think all the trials and tribulations, Jackie Robinson experience," said Aaron."Give me back, breaking records like babe Ruth held for such a long time, according to everyone, if given the same opportunity to play this game, you can do the same."
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