Forget tax day. In baseball, April 15 marks an even more important event—Jackie Robinson Day.
It was on that date back in 1947 that Robinson stepped on the field wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, thus breaking the sport's color barrier by becoming the first African-American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era.
While MLB will celebrate the 66th anniversary of that momentous occasion on Monday, when all players will once again don Robinson's retired No. 42 on their jersey, fans will get a chance to relive Robinson's heroic journey and historic career Friday, as the film 42 hits theaters across America.
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