Jackie Roosevelt Robinson made his professional baseball debut with the Montreal Royals in Daytona Beach, Florida — at the ballpark that would later bear his name. This historic game marked the beginning of Robinson’s groundbreaking career in professional baseball. Just one year later, in 1947, he would break Major League Baseball’s color barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers and earn the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award.
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