Across major league baseball, 42 has long been the only permanently retired number and was done so in honor of Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American to break the color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.Across the ocean in Japan, Kenta Bright, a Chunichi Dragons outfielder born to a Ghanaian father and Japanese mother now wears the iconic No. 42 jersey as a tribute to his hero Robinson, who died in his retirement at the age of 53 in 1972."I received a lot of courage from Jackie. I thought I also need to become like him," Bright, who was born and r…READ FULL ARTICLE
