All of MLB wears #42

[Northern Star]

I love Jackie Robinson. I hate racism. I hate that blacks were excluded for so long from the game. It's an injustice that can never be put right, no matter how hard they try. And every player wearing 42 is trying too hard. It's overkill. I'm OK with them retiring the number, but leave it at that.

[yeszir]

I don't know if the 42 jerseys are MLB's way of trying to make the injustice right. It might be overkill though, especially with his number already being retired.

[italstallianion]

Afterall, isn't the entire point of retiring the jersey in the first place to make it so that nobody else wears the number 42?

[Keeper]

Larry Doby always gets overlooked. Compared to Jackie Robinson, he's never gotten his due, IMO.

[VA Sox Fan]

I don't know if the 42 jerseys are MLB's way of trying to make the injustice right. It might be overkill though' date=' especially with his number already being retired.[/quote']

 

I agree. But it is politically correct I suppose.

 

Nothing will make that injustice right.

[yeszir]

Larry Doby always gets overlooked. Compared to Jackie Robinson' date=' he's never gotten his due, IMO.[/quote']

 

Larry Doby is baseball's Buzz Aldrin.

[Keeper]

Haha, true.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

All it is really is a tribute to him. It's not trying to make anything right. Other than retiring his number, it's MLB's way of honoring him on the day he broke the color barrier.

[Dojji]

Larry Doby was an excellent power-hitting outfielder and served the Guardians and whoever else he played for to several fantastic offensive seasons. But in terms of overall talent, he wasn't Jackie. Great in his own right, deserving of more respect than he got, but just not Jackie.

[Emmz]

Larry Doby was plenty good, don't think you could possibly say that he's "just not Jackie".

 

a lot of people don't realize, but there were black players before Jackie Robinson, just before the color barrier. He wasn't the first black major leaguer, just the first one to play after the color barrier.

 

So much great Negro League talent that never saw the majors, or at least in it's prime. Satchel Paige was pretty old by the time he first broke the majors, and another one was Josh Gibson. Some of the stories about Gibson make you wonder if he could have set records in the major leagues.

[Gom]

Only one player still wears 42. If you ask me, the class of baseball.

[CanadianSox]

Larry Doby is baseball's Buzz Aldrin.

 

Who is Michael Collins then??

[SCM33]

I liked the whole #42 thing the first year they did it. Seems kind of tacky now. A Jackie Robinson day every year in which the team does a little movie on the scoreboard screen before the game and hands out a card or something like that would do just fine.