The Washington Post, April 18th, 2004
Mahlon Duckett remembers being a bit worried when Jackie Robinson left the Negro Leagues to join the Brooklyn Dodgers' organization. "At first, I was a little leery because he wasn't the best ballplayer in the league in 1945," the former Philadelphia Stars player said. "But I felt great when he went up there. I knew that he could play some ball," he said. "I never thought that he would turn out to be the player that he turned out to be, and that's one of the greatest of all-time." At stadiums all across the majors Thursday, baseball paused for Jackie Robinson Day. There were video tributes, sp...
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