Baseball Way Back looks back on Jackie Robinson's first visit to Wrigley Field.
The Cubs celebrated Jackie Robinson's legacy with great fanfare Thursday, as they started a series with Robinson's team, the Dodgers, at Wrigley Field.
The game was a box-office smash, with Chicago Tribune sportswriter Edward Burns noting,"The largest National League crowd that ever paid to see a game in Wrigley field -- 46,572 cash guests -- yesterday jammed all available spaces to see Jackie Robinson, his fellow Dodgers and the Cubs." Robinson entered the contest with a 14-game hitting streak, but Robinson, batting second in the order behind future White Sox manager Eddie Stanky, would leave the game without a hit and would strike out looking twice against Cubs hurler Johnny Schmitz, once with the bases loaded and no outs.
Moving down the page, a bulletin from Sacramento reported that backers of a measure to establish a political and racial equality commission in California was tabled in committee, a move"considered to be the death sentence of the measure."
"Although he was not personally refused by the management of the hotel, he learned that they were not anxious to have him," Smith wrote.
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