Dodgers' Mookie Betts talks Jackie Robinson's legacy, believes 'nobody should wear' No. 42

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Major League Baseball on Friday will celebrate Jackie Robinson Day and the 75th anniversary of the baseball icon breaking the color barrier when he took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Mookie Betts, who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers, talked about what it means to him to be a Black baseball player commemorating Robinson on the team the shortstop used to play for.

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Mookie Betts tosses his bat after connecting for an RBI-single off Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Alex Colome on April 9, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

"Just being blessed, you know, just being happy that I got the opportunity to do what I'm doing now. Obviously everything he went through was rough, man, and kind of puts things in perspective because my dad was alive then and just knowing all the stories that he's told me and everything that he went through, which was pretty much nothing compared to what Jackie went through," Betts said in an interview on the "Black Diamonds" podcast. "It's just a blessing to have someone who did it the way he did it. Carried himself the way he carried himself and was still great. You know, that's hard to do."

To celebrate Robinson this year, each Major League player will wear the No. 42 in Dodger Blue for the first time. Every player usually wears the number for the day, but it’s the first time each number will be in Dodger blue.

Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers prepares to catch a ball, 1951. (Keystone/Getty Images)

Robinson’s number is retired throughout baseball. Betts said that because of what Robinson means to the game and to the