Seventy-six years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, it’s a battle America still fights. That wasn’t lost on the Nets and 76ers.
PHILADELPHIA — On April 15, 1947 in Brooklyn, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier — and completed a harrowing journey from player to pioneer, fighting a battle for racial equality.And that fact wasn’t lost on all parties involved Saturday in Game 1 of the first-round playoff series between Brooklyn and Philadelphia,, including the two black men and longtime friends who were coaching the teams, largely comprised of more black men.
Jackie Robinson went to John Muir High School in California, which is also where Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn graduated from.Before Robinson, Major League Baseball had been segregated for more than a half-century, very much a microcosm of the racism in the American consciousness, and not just in the Jim Crow south.
But none of the players or coaches have lost sight of the sacrifices Robinson went through to help create a world in which they could excel.
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