Bill Shaikin: Dodgers' Dave Roberts calls out MLB for reducing opportunities for Black players
LOS ANGELES â The word Dave Roberts kept coming back to was "uncomfortable."
Jackie Robinson Day is the day Major League Baseball celebrates all it has done to bring Black people back to baseball. On this 75th anniversary of Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier, Roberts is using the day to call out MLB for cutting back on opportunities for Black players.
"It's really hit me in the face," Roberts said, "that I have to be uncomfortable."
To call Robinson a Hall of Fame baseball player is a painfully incomplete description, almost a mythology. He was an activist for civil rights and for social justice.
"Jackie Robinson made my success possible," the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1968.
On the 25th anniversary of his breaking the color barrier, Robinson accepted an invitation from MLB to be honored at the World Series. He ended his speech by calling
