The man’s name was Moses Harris, although Cliff Floyd and his teammates — whether they were playing Little League baseball, pee-wee football or youth basketball — properly called him Mr. Harris.

And whenever Mr. Harris brought his charges from South Holland, Ill., up to Chicago to play a game at Jackie Robinson Park, the instructions were clear:

“His favorite thing to say was, ‘We better represent today,’ ” Floyd told The Post on Tuesday.

Wednesday, we will all be asked to represent in honor of Jackie, who broke baseball’s modern-day color barrier on April 15, 1947, at Ebbets Field. With no games to showcase the annual tradition of all players wearing Robinson’s retired number 42 on his day, Major League Baseball will use the coronavirus shutdown to honor him in other ways, including a bevy of Jackie-related programming, on the MLB Network and MLB.com, the launch of a “Jackie Robinson Day Virtual Learning Hub” by the Hall of Famer’s eponymous foundation and a series of team-hosted digital roundtable discussions.

Floyd, an MLB Network analyst who spent four seasons (2003-06) with the Mets and another 13 years with six other clubs, participated in such a discussion on Monday run by his (current) hometown Marlins that will air Wednesday on the team’s YouTube channel. After so much time quarantined at home, he acknowledged, it felt good to talk, on Zoom, about a meaty topic like Jackie. He hopes that sentiment will carry this day.

“Unfortunately, this year is different than others,” Floyd said. “But it can be powerful to sit at home and sort of have the time to pay attention to the details about how much [Robinson] meant to us.”

Despite Mr. Harris’ urgings, Floyd acknowledged, he didn’t fully appreciate Robinson’s contributions until he played professionally.

“If you really think about it, going on what we’ve seen from the movie [“42”] and what we’ve heard from his life, being the first to play the sport, that in itself was pressure,” Floyd said. “I just felt like it was impossible to go through an 0-for-10, 0-for-20 stretch. I’d start to pull the hairs off of my bald head.

“If Jackie went 0-for-20, it was [other people saying], ‘Get out of here! Go kick rocks!’ … In no way possible could I imagine myself going through that. Me knowing myself, I couldn’t have lasted a week.”

Active African-American players like Tim Anderson, Dee Gordon and Lewis Brinson also partook in digital roundtables, and Floyd thinks shining a spotlight on Jackie’s heroism can simultaneously display baseball at its best as it continuously strives for a more diverse playing pool.

“Don’t let what you heard or anything derail you from being great at a sport because you hadn’t heard that it has the magnitude of some other sport. I think that’s what Jackie represented,” Floyd said. “He was so great and so powerful. Even though it didn’t seem like everyday, he embraced that [struggle], every day.

“When you talk about him paving the way, that’s how you can speak to it and not have it be a cliché. You think of what he endured every day. If you think about those things, it should be easy peasy for you to go out there and ball and not worry about anything.”

Mr. Harris, an African-American, has passed away, Floyd said. Hence responsibility moves onto the generation to make sure everyone represents Jackie. Especially on his day, and especially with so many people struggling to beat this pandemic and its many tentacles.

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