Dodgers will visit the White House for the celebration of World Series

Los Angeles Dodgers are expected to visit the White House on Monday, continuing a tradition old decades for the World Series reign champions who was responsible for political tension while President Trump occupied the oval office.

In the first term of Mr. Trump, the usual visit was boycotted by black and Latinos players. And before the Dodgers won the World Series in 2020, their manager, Dave Roberts, had suggested that he would skip all visit to Trump’s White House. But Joseph R. Biden Jr. beat Mr. Trump this fall and welcomed the team the following year.

The franchise again won the championship in 2024, and this year, it does not seem that Dodgers are planning to jump the visit. Their star stop, Mookie Betts, who refused to go to the White House in 2019 after winning a title with the Boston Red Sox, said that he would attend this time.

The Dodgers visit comes after the Trump administration was strongly criticized for deleting an article on a Pentagon website celebrating Jackie Robinson, who broke the barrier of the colors of baseball and is one of the most famous players in the franchise.

The Ministry of Defense, which worked to purge any reference to diversity, equity and inclusion on its sites, restored the page after the counterpoup. Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., said that he was “stunned” by the dismissal and that he would be “atrocious” to reduce Robinson’s career to a “Dei history”.

Robinson underwent intense verbal violence when he joined Major League Baseball during the 1947 season. (At the time, the Dodgers played in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn; they moved to Los Angeles in 1958.)

Little, or no players, are held in higher esteem by sport: the Robinson number, 42, was retired from the League in 1997. The famous sport Jackie Robinson Day every year on April 15, when each player wears a uniform n ° 42.

Mr. Betts said last week that he had regretted boycotting the White House visit with the Red Sox, but that he was “black in America in a situation like this, it is a difficult place to be”, according to The Athletic.

Mr. Roberts, one of the two black managers of the MLB, said that the Dodgers had collectively decided to go to the White House. The journey is “not a political thing,” said Roberts, and is simply intended to celebrate the title of the team series of the team.

“We have many different people who are part of this organization,” said Roberts last week. “Different horizons. Different cultures, race, genre. And so everyone has a different story.”

“We are all going as an organization,” he said, adding: “We are all aligned.”