Senator Backs "Jackie Robinson Stadium"

Senatore Charles Schumer (D-NY) supports the idea of naming the new Mets ball park after Jackie Robinson.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer got it right yesterday when he urged the Mets to name their new stadium after baseball great Jackie Robinson.

Doing so, wrote Schumer to Mets owner Fred Wilpon, "will bolster a connection with the New York community, and with America, that will be worth far more than any corporate contract" for the rights to name the new park.

Schumer recalled Wilpon's emotional link to Robinson: "As a native Brooklynite who . . . was a witness to the special history made in that place by Jackie Robinson, I know you understand what this could mean for New York."