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| Philadelphia finally issues public apology for racist treatment of Jackie Robinson |
The Philadelphia City-limits Council anesthetized a resolution Thursday allotment April 15 as a day to account Robinson and to apologize for his abusage if the Dodgers visited the City-limits of Brotherly Love.
When Robinson bankrupt baseball's blush barrier on April 15, 1947, he was met with affluence of racist disdain. And it wasn't all in the South.
When arena the Phillies a anniversary afterwards in Brooklyn, abounding Philadelphia players taunted Robinson with ancestral slurs. Nobody's accomplishments were added abhorrent than Phillies administrator Ben Chapman, who initially threatened to avoid the series. He afflicted his apperception afterwards acumen not arena the amateur would aftereffect in a forfeit.
The Dodgers catholic to Philadelphia the next ages but were banned access at the Ben Franklin Hotel because of Robinson. They confused to the Warwick Hotel, area they were welcomed.
It would accept been nice for the city-limits to apologize to Robinson afore he died in 1972. The city-limits will instead about apologize to Robinson's widow, Rachel.
MLB ceremoniousness Robinson annually on April 15 as players from anniversary aggregation abrasion his No. 42, which was universally retired in 1997.
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