Vintage Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Franklin Marshall Jackie Robinson 34

  

Vintage Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat Franklin Marshall Jackie Robinson 34. Please Be sure to see the photos, directly below the Description. Vintage, Louisville Slugger H&B Wood Baseball Bat. Hall of Famer & Brooklyn Dodgers Legend.. Bat is from Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. & is branded on Barrel end. Middle Brand Reads:'Louisville Slugger', 125 Hillerich & Bradsby Co. Louisville, Kentucky Barrel end marked:'Genuine, Jackie Robinson, Franklin Marshall Coll. Measures: 34 in Length & approx. 3 wide, at widest end of Bat Bat is still Strong & sturdy, with No cracks or damage at all. Please refer to the pictures below, for all the specifics. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. During his 10-year MLB career, Robinson won the inaugural Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949-the first black player so honored. MLB also adopted a new annual tradition, "Jackie Robinson Day", for the first time on April 15, 2004, on which every player on every team wears No. Robinson's character, his use of nonviolence, and his talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation that had then marked many other aspects of American life. He influenced the culture of and contributed significantly to the civil rights movement.