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Sunday night, Connor Orr of New Jersey’s Star-Ledger wrote of how important the Jackie Robinson Day celebration is to Yankees players. Said Curtis Granderson:

This day is the reason I get to play this great game of baseball, with Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier 65 years ago, and doing a lot of things not only for baseball but for the civil rights movement… For African-Americans like myself and other minorities as you look around this clubhouse, to get a chance to play this game, it’s all because of one person.

It's a very generous and accurate thought from the Yankees centerfielder. Granderson almost always speaks wisely, but it’s good to see him speaking is such a way as ...

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