Sharon Robinson took a contemplative moment to gather herself and her thoughts while nodding her head as she unstrapped microphones from her top on the Alex Gordon Field inside the Kansas City MLB Urban Youth Academy.
Robinson, the daughter of baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, visited the KC Urban Youth Academy — about a block away from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum — on Friday as part of an MLB event scheduled to coincide with both Black History Month and baseball’s year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s birth.
When a reporter brought up the name Frank Robinson, that resonated with Sharon Robinson.