Long dreamed about and in development for longer than the big league career of the man it honors, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened Tuesday in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the widow of the barrier-breaking ballplayer and two of his children.Rachel Robinson, who turned 100 on July 19, watched the half-hour outdoor celebration from a wheelchair in the 80-degree Fahrenheit heat, then cut a ribbon to cap a project launched in 2008.Her 72-year-old daughter, Sharon, also looked on from a wheelchair and 70-year-old son David spoke to the crowd of about 200 sitting on folding chairs arrayed in a closed-off section of Varick Street, a major thoroughfare where the 19,380-square-foot museum is located. It opens to the public on Sept. 5맥스카지노�The issues in baseball, the issues that Jackie Robinson challenged in 1947, they맥스카지노�re still with us,맥스카지노� David Robinson said. 맥스카지노�The signs of white only have been taken down, but the complexity of equal opportunity still exists."Rachel Robinson announced the museum on April 15, 2008, the 61st anniversary of Jackie breaking the big league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. Robinson became NL Rookie of the Year, the 1949 NL batting champion and MVP, a seven-time All-Star and a World Series champion in 1955. He hit .313 with 141 homers and 200 stolen bases in 11 seasons and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1962.Robinson, who died in 1972, had an impact beyond baseball, galvanizing a significant slice of American public opinion and boosting the civil rights movement.맥스카지노�There맥스카지노�s nowhere on the globe where dream is attached to our name 맥스카지노� or our country맥스카지노�s name,맥스카지노� New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. 맥스카지노�There맥스카지노�s not a German dream. There맥스카지노�s not a French dream. There맥스카지노�s not a Polish dream. Darn it, there맥스카지노�s an American dream. And this man and wife took that dream and forced America and baseball to say you맥스카지노�re not going to be a dream on a piece of paper, you맥스카지노�re going to be a dream in life. We are greater because of No. 42 and because he had amazing wife that understood that dream and vision.맥스카지노�A gala dinner was held Monday night to preview the museum, which contains 4,500 artifacts, including playing equipment and items such as Robinson's 1946 minor league contract for $600 a month and his 1947 rookie contract for a $5,000 salary. The museum also holds a collection of 40,000 images and 450 hours of footage.A 15-piece band played at the ceremony, attended by former pitcher CC Sabathia, former NL president Len Coleman and former Mets owner Fred Wilpon, along with players맥스카지노� association head Tony Clark and Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch.맥스카지노�Without him, there would be no me,맥스카지노� Sabathia said. 맥스카지노�I wouldn't have been able to live out my dream of playing Major League Baseball.맥스카지노�Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, director Spike Lee (wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers cap) and former tennis star Billie Jean King also were on hand."It seems like we're more divided than ever," King said. 맥스카지노�People like Jackie Robinson was a great reminder every single morning, every single evening that we have to do the right thing every day.맥스카지노�Original projections had a 2010 opening and $25 million cost. The Great Recession caused a delay.Ground finally was broken on April 27, 2017, when the Jackie Robinson Foundation said it had raised $23.5 million of a planned $42 million and the museum was intended to open in 2019. The pandemic caused more delays, and the total raised has risen to $38 million, of which $2.6 million was contributed by New York City.Tickets will cost $18 for adults and $15 for students, seniors and children. The second floor includes an education center, part of a plan envisioned by Rachel Robinson.맥스카지노�She wanted a fixed tribute to her husband, where people could come and learn about him, but also be inspired,맥스카지노� said foundation president Della Britton, who headed the project. 맥스카지노�We want to be that place, as young people now say, a safe space, where people will talk about race and not worry about the initial backlash that happens when you say something on social media.맥스카지노�David Robinson said his father would have been proud.맥스카지노�He was a man who used the word 맥스카지노�we,맥스카지노�맥스카지노� David said. 맥스카지노�I think today Jackie Robinson would say I accept this honor, but I accept this honor on behalf of something far beyond my individual self, far beyond my family, far beyond even my race. Jackie Robinson would say don맥스카지노�t think of you standing on my shoulders, I think of myself as standing on the shoulders of my mother, who was a sharecropper in Georgia, my grandmother, who was born a slave."