Advertisement“Jackie’s passion was civil rights and equality, and more so than baseball,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said then. In this fragile moment, I asked Roberts if he would feel comfortable visiting the White House as the manager of Jackie Robinson’s team. “For me, I stand by: I’m a baseball manager,” Roberts told me Saturday at the Dodgers’ fan festival. In the wake of the killings of Renee Good and then Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, federal officials hurried to television cameras and social media accounts. (Mark Schiefelbein / Associated Press)I asked Dodgers president Stan Kasten whether the team had decided to visit the White House.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 01, 2026 21:02 UTC