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Tomorrow 4/15/09, all uniformed personnel will wear #42 to honor the 62nd anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier.

IMHO, Jackie Robinson Day should be a national holiday and tax day should get bumped to the 16th, so as not to infringe. I don't have a number #42 to wear tomorrow, but I will be sporting a #22 Buck O'Neil/KC Monarchs shirt.

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Jackie Robinson Day

tomorrow at Citi Field. Can’t wait to walk through the Jackie Robinson Rotunda.

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by Russ Oates on Apr 14, 2009 9:48 PM MDT reply actions  

By the way,

Fowler is going to look awesome wearing #42. (Full disclosure: I’m starting to get a little uncomfortable with my own man-crush on Dex.)

Aut Vincam Aut Periam

by PioneerSkies on Apr 14, 2009 10:02 PM MDT reply actions  

Eh....

I’ve still got one on Mark Reynolds. It’s okay, PS. It’s okay to be who you really are inside. ;-)

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by DbacksSkins on Apr 15, 2009 12:28 PM MDT up reply actions  

That's

gonna be a lot of wasted jerseys.

Sorry, that was the first thing I thought of — everyone in beisbol is gonna have a jersey they’ll wear ONCE.

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by DbacksSkins on Apr 15, 2009 12:29 PM MDT reply actions  

Hmmm...

“wasted”…. that was pretty un-PC of me.

Point remains, though. Major League Baseball is being embarrassingly hypocritical.

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by DbacksSkins on Apr 15, 2009 1:12 PM MDT up reply actions  

I don't like it

I think that they’re going way over the top on the Jackie Robinson tributes. Don’t get me wrong – the man deserves a lot of love. For the 62nd anniversary, though? I could see it for #50, #75, #100, or even #42, but not for this one.

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by wtnelson on Apr 15, 2009 1:43 PM MDT reply actions  

I think they do it every year...

but I might be mistaken.

Eschew Obfuscation!

by Jeff Aberle on Apr 16, 2009 4:16 PM MDT up reply actions  

This Was the First

They used to allow one player on each team to wear #42, then that morphed into anyone that wanted to wear it. This was the first year that it was required. LaTroy Hawkins and Glenallen Hill have worn it in the past for the Rockies.

I know, it’s much ado about nothing, and what I’m saying may sound bad. I just think that they could come up with a better way to honor Robinson’s memory.

"I will make nachos and sit and watch draft guy. nacho and cola. This gon be crazy. We could even move down in draft and get like a hole nother team guy."
--Horvil Tiki

by wtnelson on Apr 16, 2009 4:58 PM MDT up reply actions  

Yeah, it used to be by choice.

Upton, CY and Byrnes wore it for us last year.

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by DbacksSkins on Apr 17, 2009 5:20 PM MDT up reply actions  

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