SAN DIEGO — Jackie Robinson Day will be celebrated throughout Major League Baseball on Friday, the 75th anniversary of Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
But what if Robinson's debut had come in 1946, say on Aug. 15, as a late-season call-up to the Dodgers from their Montreal farm club.
Over the last six weeks of the season, the Dodgers lost eight games by one run.