Friday is 'Jackie Robinson Day' across Major League Baseball, honoring the man who broke the MLB color barrier 75 years ago when Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves.
Today, all Major League players wear Robinson's number 42.
In honor of the race barrier broken in 1947, the Texas Rangers have asked another race pioneer to throw out the first pitch at tonight's game at Globe Life Field.
The "Grandmother of Juneteenth" Opal Lee will be accompanied to the mound by two of the Rangers' greatest African-American players of the past, Fergie Jenkins and Al Oliver.
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