The video incorporates 16-millimeter motion picture footage, filmed by local fan Robert S. Schumann also produced a short video featuring Robinson playing at Daytona Beach, which the Tortugas show on the videoboard prior to their games.
And he's pigeon-toed, which is what he was in real life." If this were in color today, this would have been white satin with royal blue stripes and belt loops. , he was wearing at a practice field in West Daytona called Kelly Field. He wore two different uniforms in Daytona. The reason that the artist did this was to make it less of a sports statue. "The theme of, he's passing on his contribution to future generations.
That committee's statue, located outside of the ballpark's main entrance, was unveiled at a 1990 ceremony attended by Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson. This rechristening was spurred by Schumann's research efforts he also was the founder of the Jackie Robinson Statue Committee. But it all started in Daytona Beach, which renamed its ballpark in 1990 in honor of Robinson. That set the stage for Robinson's epochal 1947 campaign with Brooklyn, where he kicked off his Hall of Fame career by breaking the Major League Baseball color line. He spent the entire season with Montreal, contributing mightily to a club that went on to win the International League championship.
In 1946, Robinson was a member of the Triple-A Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' top farm club. It was then that the City of Daytona Beach ignored existing Jim Crow-era segregation laws so Jackie Robinson, recently signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers, could play there. It has consistently hosted Minor League Baseball since 1920, but the most impactful chapter of the stadium's long existence occurred in 1946. The facility, which has gone through extensive renovations over decades, opened in 1914 as City Island Ballpark. That's how historian Bill Schumann describes Jackie Robinson Ballpark, home of the Florida State League's Daytona Tortugas (Class A Advanced affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds).
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