The next baseball legend to be added to my 1971 "Minor League days: Legends Edition" thread is all-timer Jackie Robinson:
He would suit up for one
season with the Brooklyn Dodgers' Triple-A team, the Montreal Royals,
and he'd give the fans everything he had, with a monster performance
that saw him hit .349 over 124 games, scoring 113 runs and stealing 40
bases.
As if he had anything to prove, it was clear the man
needed to be center stage in the Majors, so his time in Minor League
ball was kept to one season before he made his historic MLB debut the
following year, changing the game for good in every sense of the word.
1947
would open up with Jackie charging ahead to a Rookie of the Year Award,
followed by an MVP just two seasons later, and onto history, opening up
the game to other African-Americans and taking the sport to the next
level.
Next card up in this series, his MLB debut!
