Now Batting Number 42

Posts 4/15/20: 

Today is, of course, Jackie Robinson Day. On April 15, 1947, Jackie became the first African-American major league baseball player. I tried to find a connection between this great man and electricity. All I could come up with was this:

When Florida's spring training cities were trying to keep him and his team, the Brooklyn Dodgers and its minor league affiliate, from playing with an African-American in the spring of 1946, the city of DeLand claimed its stadium had faulty electrical lighting. Though the game was scheduled to be played in the afternoon. 

And then I remembered that Jackie's uniform number was famously 42. Which, I might note, is equivalent to three fortnights of days (14 + 14 +14).