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On the 61st anniversary of the day her husband broke major league baseball's color barrier, more than 330 play- ers, managers and coaches — including nine entire teams — wore Jackie Robinson's No. 42 to celebrate the Hall of Famer's accomplishments. The center of the celebration was at Citi Field, the New York Mets' $800 million ballpark under construction adjacent to Shea Stadium. The Mets unveiled designs for the rotunda, which will contain eight huge pictures of Robinson and have an 8-foot statue of his number in Dodger blue. It will be the central entrance for the ballpark. •Business Forms •Thesis, Dissertations •Fast •Fair vxer Ji L/one. NEW YORK METS MANAGER WILLIE RANDOLPH, 630 West 200 North 753-8875 C E N T E R , escorts Rachel Robinson, left, w i d o w of Jackie Robinson, and Robinson's daughter Sharon, right, from the field after a ceremony honoring Jackie Robinson before the Washington Nationals faced the New York Mets in their baseball game on Jackie Robinson Day at Shea Stadium in New York,Tuesday. AP photo OilE r / n r / n G Rent $450 ifinsik Laundromat • Close to VSJI & Bus Stop • Summer Rent $450 * Private Bedrooms '•'*' Forest Gate East and West apartnients $1820 to $2225 Every referral earns you a ticket for a raffle to win items such as LCD TV'S, Portable DVD players and OIIKT yrcat items, livery referral also earns you money off your rent. Wednesday, April 16, 2008 which opens in 2009, and the Mets estimate 30,000 fans per game will pass through. "People will say: 'I'll meet you at 42/ Everybody will know where that is," Mets owner Fred Wilpon said, lovingly putting his hand on the back of Rachel Robinson, still spry at age 85. But even as her husband's legacy was being memorialized in stone, brick and terrazzo, a study was released that said blacks made up only 8.2 percent of major league players last year, down from 8.4 percent in 2006 and the lowest level in more than two decades. The figure was 19 percent as recently as 1995 according to Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. "I'm very disappointed by that fact," Robinson said. "Competition from other sports is certainly a big factor THIS IS A N APRIL 15, 1947 FILE PHOTO showing, from left, Brooklyn Dodgers baseball players John Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, Ed Scanky and Jackie Robinson at Ebbets Field in New York. Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day Tuesday, marking the 61st anniversary of the end of the game's racial barrier. AP Photo, file but there are many factors. We've got to work on it in terms of getting younger children playing, into the game, and getting communities behind the programs." Robinson also announced the Jackie Robinson Foundation will open a Jackie Robinson Museum in the Tribeca section of Lower Manhattan and that half of the $25 million cost has been raised for the museum, projected to open in 2010. She spoke to fans during a pregame ceremony before the Mets played the Washington Nationals, telling them: "We must create a social climate that offers new opportunity for all people." Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers for the first time on April 15,1947. He died in 1972, and his number was retired for all major league teams during ceremonies at Shea Stadium attended by President Clinton on the 50th anniversary. Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera is the only player remaining from then who still wears No. 42 throughout the season. Nine Jackie Robinson scholars read values that defined the player during a news conference at Shea Stadium before people moved over to the new ballpark. The Robinson Rotunda will have those values engraved into its floor and etched into its archways: "Courage. Excellence. Persistence. Justice. Teamwork. Commitment. Citizenship. Determination. Integrity." "My father did not write them down, but very much he lived these values," said Sharon Robinson, Jackie's daughter. The rotunda will be open to tours by appointment on days when the team isn't playing, and Wilpon said he expected every schoolchild in New York to visit, some more than once. He dreamed of the rotunda as an homage — a much larger one — to the rotunda at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where he attended games as a child. That rotunda was 80-feet wide and 27-feet high, with a brass chandelier that had 12 arms resembling bats, and bulbs resembling balls. To get the right material for the floor, Wilpon contacted Sandy Koufax, his old teammate from Lafayette High School. All Koufax remembered was the rotunda was dirty. At a Police Athletic League dinner, former Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca told Wilpon it was terrazzo. "This is an overwhelming experience," Robinson said. "At my stage of life, you're looking for permanence, you're looking for things that are going to shore up the future. So many times developments don't last, progress doesn't last. What the rotunda means to me is we have evidence of the progress we've made in the past." She stood next to Wilpon, a longtime family friend. When he was about 16, he was a Dodgers batting practice pitcher and became a baby sitter for the Robinsons. He's long thought about creating this tribute. 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