NEW YORK (AP) — th approached Mel Ott Jersey , Sharon Robinson is sure her father would have a lot to say about the current political climate in the United States if he were still alive.“I know he would be outraged,” she said.Jackie Robinson, who died at age 53 in 1972, would have turned 100 on Thursday. He broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, and the centennial of his birth marks the opening of an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York titled “In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend.”It features memorabilia and 32 photographs originally shot for Look magazine, plus footage of Robinson hitting grounders to his son in the backyard of the family house in Stamford, Connecticut. Many of the photos shot by Frank Bauman and Kenneth Eide from 1949 and 1953 had not been on public view previously.Rachel Robinson, the ballplayer’s wife, planned to attend the opening, still a force at age 96. The celebration and baseball’s annual Jackie Robinson Day on April 15 will focus attention on the Jackie Robinson Museum in the SoHo section of Manhattan http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-evan-longoria-jersey , scheduled to open in December.Della Britton Baeza, CEO of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, said $28 million has been raised toward a $42 million goal — matching Robinson’s uniform number, which was retired throughout the major leagues in 1997. The money raised covers construction costs, and an additional $4 million is needed for marketing and staff. The overall goal includes $10 million for an endowment, she said.“In this day and age in this climate of our country, we really are going to take on this issue of discussing race relations,” Britton Baeza said. “What better place than a place that pays tribute to one of the great integrationists of the last century? So we’re going to roll up our sleeves. We will do it from a position of goodwill and from a position of starting with the facts, if you will, but we’re going to take these things on and talk about activism in sports.”The exhibit, which runs until Sept. 15 Matt Williams Jersey , is a partnership between the Museum of the City of New York and the foundation, and some of the memorabilia will wind up at the Jackie Robinson Museum.Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has been a major backer of the Jackie Robinson Foundation and the museum, and he will be honored at the foundation’s annual awards dinner on March 4 along with businessman Maverick Carter and musician Kristopher Bowers.“The centennial of his birth is an opportunity for MLB to recognize the historical significance of Jackie Robinson and to continue to teach younger people the impact he had on baseball and society,” Manfred said.Sharon Robinson, MLB’s education programming consultant, said today’s players need to have greater knowledge of the foundation’s efforts.“There was a shift in their awareness with the movie ’42,'” she said of the 2013 film that starred Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey. “A number of players came up to me or coaches and said, ‘I thought I knew the story but now I get it.’ There’s no time better than now because this country needs healing, needs to continue to move forward in terms of not just dealing with racism but sexism and the whole gamut of isms. So there’s no better time to look back into history and see how much has changed but how much work still needs to be done.” Quiet bats and one rough inning spell defeat for the hometown team."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Detroit Tigers AnalysisDetroit Tigers Prospect NotebookDetroit Tigers Game ThreadsDetroit Tigers NewsDetroit Tigers PodcastsDetroit Tigers RecapsBlue Jays 6, Tigers 0: Detroit offense disappears in early season shutoutNew,44commentsQuiet bats and one rough inning spell defeat for the hometown team.EDTShareTweetShareShareBlue Jays 6 http://www.giantsfanproshop.com/authentic-evan-longoria-jersey , Tigers 0: Detroit offense disappears in early season shutoutNick Turchiaro-USA TODAY SportsThe Detroit Tigers couldn’t ride the momentum from Thursday’s late-inning heroics as a big inning from the Toronto Blue Jays led to the Tigers’ first loss of the 2019 season by a 6-0 score.Bats on both sides remained quiet until the fourth inning, when Matthew Boyd surrendered a walk to Randal Grichuk and back-to-back singles to Justin Smoak and Teoscar Hernandez, leading to the Blue Jays opening up the day’s scoring. After Boyd recorded two outs, the Blue Jays managed to load the bases and add three more runs when Mikie Mahtook bobbled Freddy Galvis’s bases-clearing single in center field, as Galvis took third base. Smoak would help the Blue Jays expand their lead as he delivered a two-run single in the seventh.The Tigers offense failed to gain any real traction despite two extra-base hits and otherwise good swings from Nicholas Castellanos, owner of three of the Tigers’ six hits through two games. For startersSave for his rough fourth inning, Boyd put together a solid performance over five innings. He surrendered five hits and walked one while striking out 10 batters. The biggest highlight came as Boyd struck out the side in the first inning to strand a leadoff triple.The Blue Jays’ big offensive day would prove to be more than enough for Matt Shoemaker, a Trenton, Mich. native and Eastern Michigan University graduate. Building upon a track record of dominance against the Tigers that goes back to his days with the Los Angeles Angels, Shoemaker continued the trend; he surrendered just two hits and struck out seven over seven scoreless innings.Sweet(?) reliefBuck Farmer, despite walking a batter Willie Mays Jersey , managed a clean sixth inning of work with decent life on his fastball. Blaine Hardy, working the seventh, was less fortunate, as he surrendered two runs on two hits and a walk.Reed Garrett, the Tigers’ selection in the 2018 Rule 5 draft, made his MLB debut on Friday. Touching 95 miles per hour or above with each of his first five pitches, he recorded a perfect eighth inning that saw him earn his first major league strikeout while topping out at 97 mph on the gun and showing good life on his slider.On deckThe Tigers will continue their opening series with the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon. Spencer Turnbull, coming off of a solid spring, will make his first start of the season as he faces off against Aaron Sanchez. First pitch is slated for 3:07 p.m. at the Rogers Centre.