<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a> makes his regular season debut for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Royals" id="mw1A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Montreal Royals">Montreal Royals</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_League" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="International League">International League</a>, to make them the first integrated modern professional baseball team.<sup about="#mwt54" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_18#cite_note-8" id="mw1g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw1w">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt51" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBS0"><a class="external text" href="https://baseballhalloffame.ca/42-a-story-of-baseballs-integration/" id="mwBS4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"42: A Story of Baseball's Integration"</a>. Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.</cite><span about="#mwt51" class="Z3988" id="mwBS8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=42%3A+A+Story+of+Baseball%27s+Integration&amp;rft.pub=Canadian+Baseball+Hall+of+Fame&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbaseballhalloffame.ca%2F42-a-story-of-baseballs-integration%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+18"></span></span>