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Today the New York Yankees and all of baseball celebrate Jackie Robinson Day. If baseball were to be played today, all of baseball would wear the number #42 in his honor. Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player to break the color barrier and break into the major leagues. On this April 15, 73 years ago Robinson became a Brooklyn Dodger. He was the first African-American in all of baseball. One day earlier but eight years later, the New York Yankees acquired their first black player in Elston Howard.
Elston Howard was born February 23, 1929, in St.