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Jackie Robinson Again
Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball. Learn more at Biography.com.
So unless you're heartless, being purposely obtuse or just way too cool for a movie translation of Jackie Robinson, "42" is going to leave you feeling excellent about baseball, cheering Robinson and booing racism. In about the most paint-by-numbers way possible.
I'll catch the new Jackie Robinson movie, “42,” over the weekend—it's fantastic, friends say—but I need no sports-clip reminders or careful re-creations to bring his front-footed swing or his shouldering, headlong style on the base paths clearly in trade
There is no greater tale in sports than Robinson breaking baseball's color line on April 15, 1947. Yet there was small sense of that description that day in the sports pages of day after day newspapers, even in New York City.
“This is a celebration of Jackie Robinson. As you all know, his older brother [1936 Olympic silver medalist] Mack Robinson also made description,” said Pasadena City College Head Mark Rocha, a Brooklyn native. “Mack Robinson made Jessie Owens
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