75 years ago today, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American player in major league baseball while playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The previous year he had played for the Montreal Royals in the International League. At UCLA, he excelled in baseball, basketball, football, and track and field.
Photos Pierre-Paul Poulin and Pascale Vallée
The Jackie Robinson monument is located in front of the Olympic Stadium. Marvin Paul, of the Laurentian Red Sox, and his brother Mack Antoine Paul, a football player who also excels in athletics, represent Jackie Robinson’s legacy very well.
As part of the sports-study program at Polyvalente Arvida, we see Jahmal Gagnon from the basketball team.
Pitcher Widley Bryton-Lalanne (U16) is ranked 19th among the top 100 players in the International Ranké program. In this photo, he is with the manager of the Montreal Titans, Ian Jordan.
Left-handed pitcher Gabriel Blanco and Elliot Watson are having success at the Diamond Baseball Academy in Mirabel.
Kristina Steele, from Baseball Quebec’s Espoirs camp, took advantage of her stay in the Dominican Republic to play in a men’s team against the Dominicans.
Willie Tavarez, the excellent player of the Montreal Rockies, is with his coach, Marc Germain, who met Jackie Robinson and who saw him at work with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Isaac Roy, Austin Boland, Alex Breant, Jayden Napon and Keshia Zonnon of the Montreal National Pee-Wee AAA compete in the Dodge Cup in Rivière-du-Loup.
I met two players from the Carabins team, Hassane Dosso, receiver and student in arts and sciences, as well as Bertrand Beaulieu, running back and student in criminology.