It was all for one and one for all

The idea of outfitting an entire Dodgers team with Jackie Robinson’s jersey number made for a moving tribute Sunday at Dodger Stadium.

But it is not a new idea.

In fact, it was first proposed 58 years ago.

In Cal Fussman’s new book, “After Jackie,” former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Carl Erskine recalled a 1949 exhibition game in Atlanta when “the Ku Klux Klan was picketing the ballpark, and there were death threats. I remember Jackie’s sister being very scared.

“Burt Shotton, our manager, read one letter in the clubhouse that said, ‘Take the field, and you’re going to be shot!’ That was a very tense moment.

“We couldn’t believe that anybody would actually think of shooting someone because of his race and because he wanted to play baseball.

“Then Gene Hermanski came out with a line that broke us all up. Gene said, ‘Hey, Skipper, I got an idea. If we all wear No. 42, the guy won’t know who to shoot at.’ ”

Fifty-eight years later, the all-42 plan was enacted by a different set of Dodgers, in a different place and time. But the original sentiment -- Do it for Jackie -- remained the same.

Trivia time

Name the big-league pitcher who was the first to face Robinson and the last to face Babe Ruth.

Take that, Chicago

Los Angeles sports officials are smarting from Saturday’s stinging defeat by Chicago in the USOC’s 2016 Olympics preliminary. Briefing feels their pain.

In an effort to help ease our city’s wounded civic pride, we present the following chronicle of great L.A. triumphs at the expense of the Windy City:

1959: In the World Series, the Dodgers stop the “Go-Go” White Sox in six games.

1960: Gene Autry outbids Chicago native Bill Veeck and former Chicago insurance executive Charlie Finley for the expansion franchise that became the Angels.

1965: Sandy Koufax pitches his perfect game against the Cubs.

1972: Lakers sweep the Bulls in the first round of the playoffs en route to their first NBA championship since moving to Los Angeles.

1974: Nolan Ryan’s fastball is clocked at 100.9 mph by the Guinness Book of World Records in an Angels game against the White Sox.

1981: Rick Monday’s Game 5 home run against Montreal helps send the Dodgers into the World Series, where they defeat the Yankees in six games. (Monday never did that for the Cubs.)

1982: Rams quarterback Vince Ferragamo passes for 509 yards, the second-highest total in NFL history, against the Bears.

1987, 1989, 1990: Magic Johnson beats out Michael Jordan for the NBA’s most valuable player award.

1999: Phil Jackson won’t coach the Bulls anymore, but he will coach the Lakers.

2005: After the debacles known as the Kevin Malone and Paul DePodesta eras, Dodgers find a general manager who can generally manage in Ned Colletti, who spent 12 years working in media relations and baseball operations for the Cubs.

Or, put another way: We have the Dodgers, they have the Cubs.

Nope, not one mention

We are not going to bring up the 1985 Rams’ NFC title game against the Bears ... or the Lakers’ 1991 NBA Finals against the Bulls ... or the Angels’ 2005 ALCS against the White Sox ...

Trivia answer

Johnny Sain. He was the Boston Braves’ starting pitcher the day Robinson made his major league debut. Four years earlier -- on July 28, 1943 -- he pitched against Ruth in an exhibition game between Sain’s military teammates and a group of big leaguers managed by Ruth, who appeared as a pinch-hitter.

And finally

Fussman’s book describes a meeting between the Rev. Martin Luther King and former Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe: “Don, I don’t know what I would’ve done without you guys setting up the minds of people for change,” King told Newcombe. “You, Jackie, and Roy [Campanella] will never know how easy you made it for me to do my job.”

mike.penner@latimes.com