The supreme significance of Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson played his first Major League baseball game 65 years ago today. We’ve long become inured to stories of “firsts,” since our society has come so far on the road to judging each person by the content of his character, but in a century of firsts, Jackie Robinson was extra special. Nobody has explained his significance as well as Jack Marshall in his Ethics Alarms blog. Read it here.

Tags: baseball, ethics, Ethics Alarms, firsts, integration, Jack Marshall, Jackie Robinson

This entry was posted on April 16, 2012 at 8:13 am and is filed under Ethics-general, History, Sports, Tolerance. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “The supreme significance of Jackie Robinson”

Sean Breslin Says:
April 16, 2012 at 8:16 am | Reply
I’m very happy MLB has devoted a day every year to Jackie Robinson…you can’t understate what he did for baseball.
- Sean Breslin Says:
  April 16, 2012 at 8:17 am | Reply
  And by “understate,” I mean “overstate.”
A Man To Remember | joshweakland19 Says:
April 24, 2013 at 9:33 pm | Reply
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