Montreal Royals

Among the team's other local affluent notables were close friends Lucien Beauregard, Romeo Gauvreau, Hector H. Racine, and Charles E. Trudeau.

[citation needed] This version of the Montreal Royals enjoyed great success, particularly after it became the top farm team of the Dodgers in 1939.

Other Royals' players of note include Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, Chuck Connors, Walter Alston, Roy Campanella, Johnny Podres and the winningest pitcher in the history of the team, Tommy Lasorda.

For the rest of his life, Robinson remained grateful to the people of Montreal for making the city a welcoming oasis for him and his wife during that difficult 1946 season.

In Ken Burns' documentary film Baseball, the narrator quotes Sam Maltin, a sports journalist with the Montreal Herald: "It was probably the only day in history that a black man ran from a white mob with love instead of lynching on its mind.

1948 team
Delorimier Stadium , seen here in 1950, was the home of the Montreal Royals.
Baseball's Fabulous Montreal Royals book (1996) displaying Jackie Robinson on the cover
Jackie Robinson uniform worn with the Royals
Statue at Montreal's Olympic Stadium of the Royals' most famous player, Jackie Robinson made by sculptor Jules Lasalle
Royals and Jackie Robinson memorial at former location of Delorimier Stadium .