A modest apartment in Montreal that was once an informal honeymoon suite for Jackie and Rachel Robinson is being recognized as an important piece of baseball history and a northern outpost of the American civil rights movement.
A commemorative plaque will be unveiled Monday at the lower-level duplex apartment that was home to the couple in the summer of 1946 when Mr. Robinson played for the minor-league Montreal Royals, less than a year before he broke the race barrier in what later became known as “baseball’s great experiment.”
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