Talk:Roosevelt Stadium

Speculation
I'm removing this section:


 * The dimensions listed are for the outfield fence that was added in the 1960"s(??). Before that I believe that most baseball games were played to the brick wall some 100 feet further back. I say 100 feet because there was a full size ice rink (85ft across)behind the fence.

If anybody can provide citations, and confirm these speculations, please feel free to put it back in. SixFourThree (talk) 17:10, 1 April 2008 (UTC)SixFourThree

Baseball color line (1945)
The color line was formally breached when Branch Rickey, with the support of the new baseball commissioner, Happy Chandler, signed the African American player Jackie Robinson in October 1945, intending him to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the National League. After a year in the minor leagues with the Montreal Royals (International League), Robinson endured epithets and death threats and got off to a slow start in his first major league season in 1947, but his athleticism and skill earned him the first ever Rookie of the Year award, which is now named in his honor.

adding to this comment a bit of information and documentation: https://www.tapinto.net/towns/jersey-city/articles/a-handshake-for-the-century-happened-in-jersey-city-now-it-has-been-immortalized-by-renowned-sculptor-marc-mellon-2 Danchall (talk) 12:16, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Roosevelt Stadium (1946)
On April 18, 1946, Roosevelt Stadium hosted the Jersey City Giants' season opener against the Montreal Royals, marking the professional debut of the Royals' Jackie Robinson. In his five trips to the plate, Robinson made four hits, including a three-run homer, scored four runs and drove in three; he also stole two bases in the Royals 14-1 victory.

Breaking the color barrier (1947)
The following year, six days before the start of the 1947 season, the Dodgers called Robinson up to the major leagues. With Eddie Stanky entrenched at second base for the Dodgers, Robinson played his initial major league season as a first baseman. On April 15, 1947, Robinson made his major league debut at Ebbets Field before a crowd of 26,623 spectators, including more than 14,000 black patrons. Although he failed to get a base hit, the Dodgers won 5–3. Robinson became the first player since the 1880s to openly break the major league baseball color line. Black fans began flocking to see the Dodgers when they came to town, abandoning their Negro league teams.

Jersey City, New Jersey
The Jersey City Giants of the International League played in Roosevelt Stadium from 1937 to 1950. On April 18, 1946 Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line when he became the first African-American to play organized baseball outside of the Negro Leagues since 1916. Robinson appeared for the visiting Montreal Royals, going 4-for-5 with a home run.

New image needing placement
I'm not a regular at this article, so will leave it to others to place or not place this new image. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC) ✅ Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:27, 30 July 2012 (UTC)