Somebody has to be first.
A friend argues with me to this day that Jackie Robinson gets too much historical credit for breaking baseball’s color line because if he hadn’t, someone else eventually would have. But that logic always sounds off-key to me, because it was one man who did front that seismic change, and who bore all of the burden of it. All of the pressure and threats and racial taunts.
Somebody has to be first, always.
In South Florida sports, the Florida Panthers are skating hard to make the Stanley Cup playoffs today as the hockey season nears a crescendo, and the Miami Marlins are in the midst of their spring training.