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Jackie Robinson's First Major Baseball Award - Jackie Robinson 1946 Batting Championship Silver Presentational Bowl
Magnificent silver bowl measures a very large 12" across by 6" high (stupendous!). The front of this elegant beauty reads, "International League 1946 Batting Championship Jackie Robinson." Marked on the bottom by the exceptional quality silversmith, "Gorham." The first ever "white baseball" award won by Jackie Robinson. Incredibly significant because his joining the Montreal Royals marked the true breaking of baseball's color line. This event marked a watershed moment in American social history. Presented by Jackie to a friend in Montreal it is from the Montreal Baseball Museum. LOA from the museum curator. EX-MT.The First. And, without question, the most significant man to ever play the game of baseball. The man who broke baseball’s color line, Jackie Robinson was also the first African-American to win the Most Valuable Player Award and the first to be honored as Rookie of the Year (the award is now named for him). He is also the only baseball player, black or white, to be on a United States postage stamp and minted coin and the first African-American to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame (in 1962 he was elected in his first year of eligibility, the first since Lou Gehrig in 1939). While Babe Ruth changed the way in which we played the game, Jackie changed the way we think. We are proud to say that each of these select pieces are from the collection of Jackie’s wife, Rachel Robinson. Each will come with her signed letter of authenticity.
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