Denzel Washington Leads Touching Tribute To Jackie Robinson At Dodgers Stadium

Denzel Washington leads a tribute to Jackie Robinson before the MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. (Photo: Sean M. Haffey via Getty Images)

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson received a Hollywood-level tribute from fans of his former team on Tuesday.

Prior to the MLB All-Star Game at Dodgers Stadium, actor Denzel Washington remembered Robinson — who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball — on the 75th anniversary of his inaugural season with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Washington pointed out where Robinson’s MLB career began: Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn, New York, home of the Dodgers before their move to Los Angeles in 1958.

“When Jackie Robinson stepped onto a Major League Baseball field for the first time, armed with supreme talent and unshakable character, and wearing a Dodgers uniform, he changed the game of baseball and so much more,” Washington said.

“He said that life is not a spectator sport, and he lived that motto to the fullest,” Washington continued. Robinson died in 1972 at age 53.

Other participants in the tribute wished Robinson’s widow, Rachel Robinson, a happy 100th birthday.

You can watch Washington’s tribute to Robinson below:

Washington was once slated to star in a film about Robinson. The scrapped project was to have been a Spike Lee-directed flick, according to Variety.  The movie preceded plans for 2013′s “42” starring the late Chadwick Boseman,

Lee, in a post on Instagram in 2020, revealed Washington said he was “too old” to play Robinson.

You can check out the scrapped film’s script here.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.

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