Shortstop Tim Beckham shares a laugh with Dee Gordon while in the tunnel waiting for player introductions before the game. The Seattle Mariners played the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball game at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Wash., on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Joshua Bessex joshua.bessex@gateline.com
SEATTLE — Monday morning, for baseball’s annual Jackie Robinson Day, Seattle Mariners shortstop Tim Beckham wrote a short, but significant message on his Twitter account.
“Thank you for making it possible for us to play the game we love,” Beckham wrote.
Beckham shared a photo of Robinson in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, another of him standing next to a photo of Robinson, and two more from Beckham’s own MLB playing career.