Wednesday: 42

Every player. Every coach. Every equipment manager. Everyone today in Major League Baseball is donning the same number - 42. Why 42? Why everyone? Because today is the anniversary of a monumental step in the civil rights movement, when Jackie Robinson became the first ever African American baseball player.

There is so much going on in sports that I could have written a whole post (or more) about - the NFL schedule was released just yesterday, Angel Cabrera came out of nowhere to win the Masters over the only two people anyone was watching (Tiger and Mick), Isaiah Thomas (or Thompson if you're the President of F.I.) just became the head coach of Florida International men's basketball team, the Stanley Cup playoffs start this week, the NBA MVP race is close...and on...and on...and on.

But I would have hated myself if I wrote about any of those things because I would have not given enough air-time to the most important thing hapenning in sports, the honoring of a worthy man.

Jackie Robinson played baseball. He swung a bat and threw a ball. He practiced and studied the game and by the end of his career joined many other African American players. But Jackie Robinson is on the wall of fame next to Rosa Parks and Martin Luther Kign Jr. for his statement (while subtle) of equality in quite possibly the most American of American traditions - the game of baseball.

So remember 42, and join the millions of people tonight who celebrate racial equality which Jackie Robinson brought to American's favorite past time.