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Baseball Hall of Fame Dedicates Jackie Robinson Plaque on June 25
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Baseball Hall of Fame
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will dedicate a new Hall of Fame plaque for Jackie Robinson on Wednesday, June 25, at 1:30 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Gallery. The plaque-unveiling ceremony has been rescheduled from its original date of May 3.
Following the ceremony, Sharon Robinson, daughter of Jackie Robinson, will be the featured guest in an installment of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's Voices of the Game series, at 3 p.m., with a special appearance by Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow. The one-hour discussion and question-and-answer session is part of the Voices of the Game series, presented by the Otesaga Resort Hotel in Cooperstown and by XM Satellite Radio. Tickets are now available to Museum members only for $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under by calling 607-547-0397. Should any tickets remain on June 18, non-Members can purchase tickets by phone or in-person at the Museum.
A civil-rights activist, professor, nurse, wife and mother, Rachel Robinson is a woman of enormous accomplishments. As part of the Voices of the Game series event, Mrs. Robinson will discuss her work and the efforts achieved jointly with her late husband through education. In 1973, one year after Jackie's death, Mrs. Robinson created the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide college scholarships, extensive mentoring and leadership training. Sharon Robinson, who serves as the vice chair of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, is also an educational consultant for Major League Baseball. Sharon has authored several non-fiction books about her father, as well as a novel.
The Jackie Robinson Foundation provides four-year college scholarships to minority students who demonstrate academic achievement, leadership capacity and financial need. The more than 1,200 Foundation alumni are both leaders in their professional fields and consummate ambassadors of Jackie's legacy of community service. The Foundation is currently celebrating its 35th anniversary. Currently, 259 Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholars attend 93 colleges and universities in 30 states. Since the inception of the program, JRF Scholars have maintained a 97 percent graduation rate, more than twice the national average for minority students.
Open seven days a week the year round, with the exception of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, the Hall of Fame is open from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. daily through Labor Day. Ticket prices are $16.50 for adults (13 and over), $11 for seniors (65 and over) and for those holding current memberships in the VFW, Disabled American Veterans, American Legion and AMVets organizations, and $6 for juniors (ages 7-12). Members are always admitted free of charge and there is no charge for children 6 years of age or younger, active and retired card-carrying military personnel. |
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