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Jackie Robinson honored by MLB
 Starting this season, Major League baseball will celebrate Jackie
Robinson Day every April. Robinson will be honored each year at all Major League ballparks hosting a game on April 15, the anniversary of the date Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1947.
Commissioner Bud Selig and members of Robinson's family were in New York for the Atlanta-Mets game to kick off the inaugural day. Balls with a special No. 42 logo were used for game play, and scholars from the Jackie Robinson Foundation were at parks across the country to throw out the first balls.
Jackie Robinson Day is one of a number of tributes dedicated to the ground-breaking and well-respected ballplayer. In 1997, Robinson's jersey No. 42 was permanently retired from Major League baseball use.
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