Jackie Robinson is a baseball legend and civil rights icon, known for breaking major league baseball’s longstanding color barrier while with the Brooklyn Dodgers. However, before Jackie became known as #42, he was #9, as a member of the Montreal Royals, an affiliated minor league franchise. Jackie Robinson’s season in Montreal is immortalized in a Boulevard Saint-Laurent mural. When Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson, he had played for one post-war season with the Kansas City Monarchs. Signing a Black baseball player to integrate the game was a great experiment, and…
