You mean it's not Hank Bauer Day?
Posted on 04/15/2009 2:49:13 AM PDT by trumandogz
There will be No. 42s everywhere on Wednesday as Major League Baseball honors Jackie Robinson’s first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, which came on April 15, 1947. Commissioner Bud Selig has asked that all managers, coaches and players on the 30 major league teams wear Robinson’s number as a sign of unified support for the anniversary, which marks the breaking of baseball’s color barrier.
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I wish I could attend a game today.
This has been done already.
When are the reparations coming?
Why dont they all wear a big, fat ZERO on their unis to honor the usurper?
Nice thought, but a COLOSSAL waste of money.
Not a waste of either of our money.
Rather, as MLB has done previously after holding a special uniform day, they will auction the uniforms with the proceeds going to a charity.
I did not see in the article that MLB is demanding reparations and I fail to see any connection between Robinson and Obama.
You arent trying hard enough if you dont see any connection.
i thought we were in the post-racial era now?
They need to cut this crap out and move on.
Okay, what is the connection between Robinson and Obama?
And while we nay be in a post racial era, we still commemorate important events on their anniversary.
And the integration of MLB was an important event for the sport and for America.
they should all not wear any numbers! That is not to honor the Øbamanation... 
but rather it is to honor the original baseball sumbitch of all times, Ty Cobb!
The following from Ty Cobb Quotes
When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
BTW In Ty's day, they did not wear nunbers--
of me bray-king the idiocy beerier.
What is so special about a 62nd anniversary? I can see a 60th or 70th celebration.
The Dodgers can’t participate. They retired #42 a long time ago.
Race is being used to destroy this country and many people applaud it as if it is a good thing.
Agreed. This stuff is getting old, fast. I am all for recognizing legitimate progress, but when does this stop? Can’t we silently acknowledge this without being forced to?
Was watching a game on TV held at the new park dedicated to number 42. They showed a huge, 8-foot tall “sculpture” of the numbers “42” that stood in the entrance to the park. First, I thought, man that thing is ugly, and second, can’t we dispense with the over-the-top remembrances and displays of tolerance?
I completely agree. Jackie Robinson was a great American (and a Republican), but I don’t see the point in doing this every year. Every ten years, plus the 75th anniversary, makes a lot more sense to me.
To me, doing it every year has the feel of pandering to black victimology and white guilt, as opposed to that of a tribute to a great American and remembrance of a historic event.
Enough already. Robby was a great player and a trailblazer. His # has already been retired in major league baseball and is memorialized in just about every major league ball park. So enough is enough and the sooner Bud Selig vacates the commissioner’s office the better.
Bingo. We can thank Bud "Allan" Selig for this incessant display of political correctness. The Robinson universal-number-retiring, the "Civil Rights Game"--this is Bud's baby. He is obsessed with this stuff.
Jackie Robinson was a terrific player, a man of courage and class--all that, yes. It's appropriate that the Dodgers retire his number. But not all of baseball. And it was appropriate in 1997 to make a big deal out of the 50th anniversary of Robinson's debut. But not every year.
Jeez, just when I was finally getting to the point where I could fill out a scorecard correctly.
He'd be appalled by the racist propagandists using his memory.
Exactly.
The problem here is the obsession with RACE. Enough already.
Every inning my lead off batter would be my normal lead off hitter.
Need a bunt,,, send my best bunter up to bat.
Two guys on base, up comes my clean up hitter every time.
A flexible batting order would would be great, so many choices. Of course the lousy hitters would never come up to bat in the entire game.
A new pitcher every inning. Unlimited substitution great!
Another plus the umpires would never know I was making a travesty of the game.
On the serious side Jackie handled the comments, the slurs with style and grace. In addition it did not effect the way he played, the guy was one heck of a ball player.
Yes, but so were Babe Ruth, Micky Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Roger Maris and dozens of others down through the history of baseball. It is nice that Jackie broke the color barrier. To celebrate it year after year is racism. If we want to end racism, we must end racism. Stop talking about it, stop celebrating it. The 50 year anniversary should have been enough to honor Jackie. He was better than the average player, but as I said so were many others, many of the same race as Jackie.
I agree with the posters who say quit pounding the race issue year after year.
Bud Selig sucks
This WBC business is costing teams their start players.
Red Sox could have had him. The beloved Tom Yawkee was a racist though and didn’t bite. Supposedly could have had Willie Mays too.
Williams, Mays and Robinson playing together?
Racism never pays.....
MLB has a recognized the precipitous decline of the (non-Latin) black-ballplayer. The annual “Jackie Robinson Day” is a marketing tool to help publicize their outreach to the talent pool that has turned away from baseball and toward the NBA & NFL.
That’s why this thing is being done every year.
By "cut this crap out" and "move on," do you mean like the people in the South who year after year for the last 144 years commemorate their Long Lost Confederacy losing the Civil War?
For some reason, after all this time they have not "cut this crap out" and "moved on."
At the Pirate home opener the other day, both teams wore caps with the Pittsburgh Police insignia in honor of the three slain officers. Those caps will be auctioned with the proceeds going to the families.
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