Jackie Robinson becomes the first black baseball player in the Major Leagues

After a successful season with Brooklyn Dodger's minor league farm club, the Montreal Royals in 1946, Robinson put on a Dodgers Uniform #42 and went out to bat his first game in the Major Leagues during the season opener.  “Less than a week after I became Number 42 on the Brooklyn club, I played my first game with the team,” Robinson wrote. “I did a miserable job. I grounded out to the third baseman, flied out to left field, bounced into a double play, was safe on an error, and, later, was removed as a defensive safeguard."  While it was not a stellar offensive day for Robinson, he made a total of 11 putouts playing first, and the Dodgers won the game, 5-3.