In a city where building walls are often turned into art, one space on the side of a South St. Petersburg barbershop honors a man who broke through a barrier that kept Blacks out of Major League Baseball.

The mural bears the face and name Jackie Robinson. Now, 75 years after Robinson established his legacy, Stephen Thomas continues doing what the player started as a senior director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the Tampa Bay Rays.

“I think we’re opening (Major League Baseball) up to a wide variety of identities,” Thomas said. “Not just race, but also including gender and sexual orientation and different disabilities.”

His twin brother Stephon works for the Rays too as director of promotions.

“(Robinson) was doing this on the field and opened so many doors for people," Stephon Thomas said. “And then you get that personal connection where, wow, he opened the doors to me.”

Even though their parents weren't even born yet to see Robinson's first steps onto a major league playing field, the brothers say they know the path they follow, the legacy they live and the man who made it all possible.

So it's fitting that they are working together to create the Rays' celebration and commemoration of Jackie Robinson, by designing the T-shirts Rays staff will get, and the commemorative baseball caps bearing Robison’s Jersey #42 that fans will all get at next Friday’s home game.

“It’s our baby," Stephon Thomas said. “It’s pretty cool right?"

"Fifteen thousand people are gonna get that hat that we created together, and all the staff will get the sushi, and that's what you think about what we do for our work,” he added.