"I owe more to Canadians than they'll ever know. In my baseball career, they were the first to make me feel my natural self." -- Jackie Robinson #jackierobinsonday
@coopincanada @thehazelmae That’s cool to know. I wish we could get the Expos back.
@coopincanada It still blows my mind that this had to be said. He should have been just another ball player. But what he went through is mind boggling 💕⚾️🇨🇦🏴
@coopincanada Best Jackie Montréal Royals story. After clinching the 1946 Junior World Series at home, fans chased him. Montréal Herald sportswriter Sam Maltin wrote, “It was probably the only day in history that a black man ran from a white mob with love instead of lynching on its mind.”
@coopincanada Robinson already "broke in" to Pro baseball as part of the Montreal Royals - Brooklyn Dodgers farm team. Then the Americans usurped the story, as they do often do. Whatever....
@coopincanada as a member of the Montreal Royals he ventured to Cuba with the Dodgers in an audition for that transcendent season youtu.be/bxvYGUxP_cg?si…
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