Additionally, as has been tradition every April 15 since 2009, Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day with all players and on-field personnel wearing No. 42. Robinson's No. 42 was retired across all of Major League Baseball in '97.
"It's always cool to wear No. 42," Twins right fielder Torii Hunter said. "He opened doors for not just black Americans, but Latinos, Japanese, Koreans, Cubans. You're talking about everybody. He opened doors. And if he failed, who knows where baseball would be today?"
Hunter, 39, has long been an admirer of Robinson, who broke MLB's color barrier in 1947.