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Why are MLB players all wearing the same number? Today is Jackie Robinson Day

“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me,” Jackie Robinson said. “All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”

FILE – Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. (AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File)
FILE – Baseball Player Jackie Robinson with the Montreal Royals club at Sanford, Fla., March 4, 1946. (AP Photo/Bill Chaplis, File)
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The date marks the anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut in 1947.

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