{"id":1863743,"date":"2023-02-28T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863743"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:56:52","slug":"a-slap-in-the-face-new-york-dot-misspells-mlb-legend-jackie-robinsons-name-on-highway-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-slap-in-the-face-new-york-dot-misspells-mlb-legend-jackie-robinsons-name-on-highway-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Slap In The Face\u2019: New York DOT Misspells MLB Legend Jackie Robinson\u2019s Name On Highway Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-slap-in-the-face-new-york-dot-misspells-mlb-legend-jackie-robinsons-name-on-highway-sign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baseball<\/a> Fans were thrilled to find out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>\u2018s Department of Transportation misspelled the name of Jackie Robinson Parkway, accidentally writing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hall of Famer<\/a>\u00a0Assign your first name &#8220;Jakie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is emblazoned in Robinson&#8217;s picture, which passersby saw. &#8220;Jakie Robinson Parkway&#8221; The weekend. The road runs through Brooklyn and Queens, two boroughs in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson&#8217;s numerous achievements are known to all sports fans. Robinson, a baseball legend, is well-known for being Major League Baseball\u2019s first black player in modern times despite numerous obstacles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Robinson was the Brooklyn Dodgers&#8217; first black player in 1947. Robinson, a six-time All-Star battist, averaged.313 in his 10-year MLB career. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/35752464\/jackie-robinson-name-misspelled-new-york-city-road-sign\">ESPN<\/a>. He was awarded the MVP award and the rookie of the Year award. In 1955, the Dodgers won the World Series championship.<\/p>\n<p>The baseball icon retired early in 1957 from playing baseball and became a civil right activist. Robinson was the spokesperson for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as well as making appearances with Martin Luther King, Jr. <\/p>\n<p>Robinson was inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame as the first black person. Robinson was posthumously honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, 53 years old and suffering from diabetes and heart disease, died of a heart attack on February 5, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>The New York stretch of highway was originally named Interboro Parkway. However, it was renamed in his honor in 1997 to commemorate Robinson&#8217;s debut season with Dodgers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-130006\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott Gastel, spokesperson at the Department of Transportation, stated that the sign spelling mistake was corrected as of Monday. Fans were either offended or amused by the error, as Robert Holden (New York City Councilmember) called it. &#8220;a slap in the face,&#8221; per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/extra-mustard\/2023\/02\/28\/jackie-robinson-parkway-sign-new-york-typo\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball fans couldn\u2019t be pleased to learn that New York\u2018s Department of Transportation misspelled the name of Jackie Robinson Parkway, accidentally writing the Hall of Famer\u2019s\u00a0first name as \u201cJakie.\u201d The sign is emblazoned with a picture of Robinson, and passersby noticed it read \u201cJakie Robinson Parkway\u201d over the weekend. The roadway runs through two of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1863746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7197,15193,4378,3959,4768,9610,19979,12138,19978,4723,11637,3859],"class_list":["post-1863743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-a","tag-dot","tag-face","tag-highway","tag-jackie","tag-legend","tag-misspells","tag-mlb","tag-robinsons","tag-sign","tag-slap","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}