1On April 8th, 946, Jackie Robinson, wearing the Montreal Royals jersey (No.9 jersey), walked onto the court in front of 52,000 noisy fans at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. When he settled down as a professional player in a comprehensive baseball game and became the first official of bat, his wife Rachel, who had just been married for more than two months, was pacing up and down the aisle, too nervous to sit still. Robinson was put on the shortlist for all pitching. This is the only thing he can do that day. His next appearance was three home runs; Teammate George Shuba extended his hand to meet him. This is the first known scene where black and white players salute each other on a diamond. Robinson followed Dingle, one bunk, one grabbed the second, and finally was shut down after defeating the pitcher's dance at the third baseline. Robinson's last tally was 4-5 and 4 RBI, and he won by 14- 1 Many opposing fans were belligerent and shouted racial slander, but more people roared at his every move in the crowd. Robinson's debut marks his upcoming year with the Royal team, which is often neglected in his legendary legacy. This is crucial. After his spring training experience in Florida, it is also a harbinger of prejudice and ugliness in his career.

"Since California, Jack and I have never been to the depths of the south. We were treated badly there. Rachel Robinson talked about her husband in the interview.

About eight months before that day, Jackie Robinson first met Blanche Ritchie, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in Jersey City. 1945 10, the team announced that Robinson would join the organization at a monthly price of 600 dollars and get a signing bonus of 3,500 dollars, but Ricky designed a plan to make this future star and civil rights pioneer easily become the focus of attention. Its purpose is to send Robinson to Montreal to play with the team's top three minor league United; Ricky thinks this is the best place for Robinson to adapt to baseball in a relatively calm environment.

Jackie Robinson in uniform was the first African-American to sign with a white professional baseball team. He signed a contract with the minor league club in Montreal, a farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Bettmann/CORBIS), but first, the Robinson family must receive a month of spring training in Florida. The Dodgers' hometown in Daytona Beach was very popular at that time, but they met hostility and paranoia in Jacksonville, Sanford and Delancey, Florida.

Two of Robinson's insults in spring training were shot down with little or no official information (both times, their seats were white). On his way to Daytona, he was moved to the back of a bus by a driver named "Boy", so he couldn't eat with his teammates, and was forced to live in Duff's home separately from the local pharmacist and black leader joe harris. The Dodgers themselves were not spared by Jim Crow; When they came to Jacksonville, they found that the stadium was locked and the game was cancelled because the lights didn't work. It was an afternoon game. For Robinson, racism even wears the same uniform. Years later, he will know that Ricky described one of his arrests as a "superman game" for a long time. Clay Huo Po, the manager of the Montreal Royals and a Mississippi, responded, "Mr Ricky, do you really think black people are men?

Jackie Robinson and other members of the Montreal Royals are sitting on the bench at Kelly Stadium. In a game against the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Dodgers signed Robinson and transferred him to the Royals. In Montreal, the situation is just the opposite. Rachel Robinson said: "We are still shocked by the experience before going to Canada." She founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation on 1973 to provide university scholarships for the disabled. In the next three games, Royals won 2-/kloc-0-,and Robinson won the fourth game in the tenth game. After the sixth 2-0 series,

Knowing that Jackie was heading for the Green Diamond, the fans besieged him after the last curtain call. They hugged him, kissed him and tore his clothes. Sam Martin, Robinson's sports reporter and friend of Pittsburgh Messenger, wrote that when people carried Robinson on their shoulders, his eyes filled with tears. Martin once described this scene with a famous saying, "Maybe this is the only day in history when a black man escaped from the mind of a white mob with love instead of lynching."

After Robinson's season ended, even Clay Huo Po held his hand and sang praises for him, saying that he was a "player who must enter the major leagues". He is a major league player, an excellent team player and a real gentleman.

Of course, the royal family welcomed Robinson, but surprisingly, his year in Montreal did not have a lasting impact on Canadian sports history. This is partly because baseball is not hockey, but also because, as Jedwab pointed out in Canada, it is a sports story, not a civil rights story.

Jonah Kerry, a Montreal contributor to Grant Rand, wrote that Up & amp； Away, an authoritative historian of the World Expo, said that when he grew up, Robinson's story did not deeply affect Canadian children as it did in the United States. "My grandfather, when Jackie Chan was in Montreal, he talked about the World Expo, not the old royal family," Carey said. "That is to say, City Councillor Gerry Snyder's efforts to bring professional baseball back to Montreal in the late 1960s must have originated from his affinity for the era of royal glory-and for Montreal. To this day, the only statues outside the Olympic Stadium and the old main park of the World Expo-Gary Carter and Andre Dawson of the Hall of Fame, and many other great athletes-belong to Jackie Robinson.

This statue was built in 1987 and 20 1 1. This is Jackie Rachel's home on Degas Pace Avenue. Their future son was commemorated by a plaque and preserved as a baseball legacy. On April 15 this season, the Los Angeles Dodgers will play the Seattle Mariners at home in the civil rights game of Major League Baseball, which is also the annual Jackie Robinson Day. On this day, the players in the whole baseball world will wear his retired jersey No.42.

Breaking the color line of Major League Baseball will always be the legend of game center Jackie Robinson, but one fan will never forget his season with Montreal Royals from 65438 to 0946.

In Jack's book, he says that he owes Canadians more than they know. We are madly in love and full of expectations for starting a family. I will be deeply grateful and grateful to the people of Montreal for their attitude. This has a lot to do with our future success. "

Jackie Robinson crossed the home run after winning three games in a row with 1946 on the first day of the Montreal Royals season. (Bateman/Colby