NEW YORK -- Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers that broke Major League Baseball's colour barrier is on public view in New York and soon in other places, as well.
The April 11, 1947, document, together with a contract Robinson signed two years earlier with the Montreal Royals, is on display at Collectors Cafe, a new collectibles auction venture in Times Square.
On Friday, the documents will move to the New-York Historical Society, where they will be on view for one week before going on a tour of other cities.
"For us, the significance of the contracts is that these are the documents that ushered in a whole new era in sport history in this country," said Michael Ryan, vice-president and librarian of the New-York Historical Society.