Jackie Blue

Here's to you, Jackie.

Not only are you the most important baseball player who ever lived (or will ever live), but your first game stands as the greatest moment in Dodger, if not baseball, history.

You were a man among men, even among hateful men. You are a sterling example of character in a world — and a profession — that is sorely lacking deliberately good men.

Thanks for being one of the good ones.

Thanks for being on my team; and thanks for 1955.

Thanks for April 15, 1947.