Jackie Robinson, the famous Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player, played an exhibition game at Majestic Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas on 22 October 1953. Which stretch of former shipyards along the Hudson River in New Jersey is where he first broke baseball's colour barrier at Roosevelt Stadium in 1946?

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Hudson Waterfront. Roosevelt Stadium was on the Hudson Waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. On 18 April 1946 Jackie Robinson took the field there for the Montreal Royals, becoming the first Black player in modern professional baseball. Years later, on 22 October 1953, he played an exhibition game at Majestic Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The stadium was torn down in 1985.