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April 22, 2007
Major League Baseball honored the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color with a league-wide celebration last Sunday. Unfortunately it rained last weekend in Boston and the Sox' game was postponed. So, the Red Sox will honor the baseball trailblazer in a pregame ceremony tonight.
Members of the Red Sox will wear No. 42, including Coco Crisp, David Ortiz, and third-base coach DeMarlo Hale. Robinson's No. 42 was officially retired throughout the majors on April 15, 1997.
The ceremonial first pitch will be thrown by Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., a Professor of Law and the Founder and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. Professor Ogletree has demonstrated a career-long commitment to diversity and equal justice. Professor Ogletree will be accompanied to the mound by former Red Sox pitcher Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd.
The Can is always an interesting interview, so hopefully we'll be able to get a comment from him.
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