The Los Angeles Dodgers continued their Jackie Robinson Day tradition of visiting the statue the team had commissioned in his honor, and they were accompanied in the center field plaza of Dodger Stadium by the Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Lakers legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

From Jack Harris: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackie Robinson’s legacy is as important now as it has ever been. And on Tuesday, as the guest speaker at the Dodgers’ annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, he made the reason he believes so abundantly clear.

Abdul-Jabbar told stories about becoming a Brooklyn Dodger fan at a young age because of Robinson and getting to meet him later in life. “Jack always had the idea that he was an equal human being