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After baseball, Robinson became heavily involved working for the NAACP, campaigning for civil rights. [6] Robinson worked with President Richard Nixon and the Governor of New York, [7] Nelson Rockefeller. [8] In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams; he was the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored. [9]
Normally the individual clubs are responsible for retiring numbers. On April 15, 1997, Major League Baseball took the unusual move of retiring a number for all teams. On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the baseball color line, his number 42 was retired throughout the majors, at the order of Commissioner Bud Selig.
The Yankees' Mariano Rivera, who retired at the end of the 2013 season, [283] [284] was the last player in Major League Baseball to wear jersey number 42 on a regular basis. Since 1997, only Wayne Gretzky 's number 99, retired by the NHL in 2000, and Bill Russell 's number 6, retired by the NBA in 2022, have been retired league-wide in any of ...
42 is a 2013 American biographical sports drama film produced by Howard Baldwin and distributed by Legendary Pictures.Written and directed by Brian Helgeland, 42 is based on baseball player Jackie Robinson, the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the modern era.
League 42 — named for Robinson’s uniform number when he became the first Black player to get into the Major Leagues — is based at McAdams Park in the heart of Wichita’s Black community ...
A stolen and destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson in Wichita, Kansas, will be replaced by MLB and its 30 clubs. Bob Lutz, the founder of the League 42 baseball program that built the statue ...
Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed " Mo " [ 1 ] and " Sandman ", [ 2 ] he spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees' closer for 17 seasons.
Langford sported just a .702 OPS against right-handers, but he also turned into one of baseball’s best hitters during September, when he posted a .300/.386/.610 line and recorded a 180 wRC+.