Title: Nike Cortez
SKU: HV6724-001
Colorway: ”Jackie Robinson Day”
Retail Worth: $100 USD
Launch Date: April 15, 2025
Retailers: Nike SNKRS
Nike pays homage to baseball legend Jackie Robinson with a particular Cortez mannequin. The “Jackie Robinson Day” providing arrives with a white leather-based base and beige suede overlays by the heel, toebox and eyelets. The uncovered purple stitching on the heel additionally takes inspiration from a baseball’s lacing threads.
Reflective chrome outlines the black leather-based panel swoosh, with extra branding honoring Robinson’s #42 jersey quantity. This element lands on the chrome tongue tag, debossed heel stamps and the insoles — the final of which sees #42 within the fashion of all of the MLB groups as it’s the solely jersey quantity to be retired by each single franchise. The life-style/working shoe then rests on a striped white midsole and herringbone outsole. Tying them collectively for a neat end are white laces with silver dubraes.
Jackie Robinson Day is commemorated each April 15 in remembrance of the late athlete breaking the colour barrier. On the identical day in 1947, he began at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers which signalled the top of racial segregation in skilled baseball. He spent 10 years within the MLB and was inducted within the Corridor of Fame in 1962, and died in October 1972 from a coronary heart assault.
