Jackie Robinson makes his debut for the Montreal Royals of the International League

HAVANA - MARCH, 1947. Jackie Robinson of the Montreal Royals shakes hands with manager Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers at spring training in Havana, Cuba in March of 1947. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)

On March 17, 1946, Jackie Robinson makes his debut for the Montreal Royals of the International League. Robinson’s first appearance for the Royals, the top affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers, occurs in an exhibition game at Daytona Beach. A crowd of 3,100 attends the game at City Island Park, which will be renamed Jackie Robinson Stadium in 1990.

The game was against the big league club, the Brooklyn Dodgers and with Jackie Robinson in the lineup for Montreal, the game marks the first appearance of an integrated team in Organized Baseball in this century.

 

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