The Los Angeles Dodgers abandoned their historic Florida spring home in 2008, but the facility was revitalized with a new name: the Jackie Robinson Training Complex.
broke baseball’s color barrier, the players shared living quarters and other facilities, no matter what their race. The golf course there opened in 1954, even as public golf courses outside the Dodgertown gates were segregated.in 2008, but the facility was revitalized Tuesday with a new name: the Jackie Robinson Training Complex.The city of Vero Beach never did secure a team to replace the Dodgers as a spring training tenant.
The league plans to move its RBI championships to Vero Beach, as well as hold invitationals and youth leagues in boys’ baseball, girls’ baseball and softball. The site is the only sports property on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, which includes the Atlanta birthplace of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Alabama bridge where, in 1965, the first major march for voting rights ended in violence.“That’s always Dodgertown, so to be named after Jackie, and now you’re talking about prospects from our country and outside the country … as a resource, it’s fantastic,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
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