It was Jackie Robinson Day throughout baseball on Friday and Dexter Fowler, an African American veteran on the Cardinals’ roster, said it was “an honor” to be playing and wearing No. 42.
“This is a day that is super emotional to me and I don’t take No. 42 lightly, especially with the climate nowadays,” said Fowler before the Cardinals played the Cleveland Indians at Busch Stadium.
As one step in commemorating Robinson and also helping to bring further awareness to racial equality in light of the shooting of a Black man by a white police officer in Wisconsin the other day, Fowler said he would donate his salary from Wednesday’s game that he sat out in protest.