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Dodger Stadium's first statue will be of Jackie Robinson
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 22, 2015 | Steve Dilbeck

Posted on 12/22/2015 3:51:26 PM PST by EveningStar

The Dodgers are finally going the statue route at Dodger Stadium and on Tuesday announced the first would be of Jackie Robinson.

The Dodgers said the statue will be 9 to 10 feet tall and located at a stadium site to be determined during the 2016 season.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; colorline; dodgers; dodgerstadium; integration; jackierobinson; mlb; race; statue
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Ahhh, will he be wearing a BROOKLYN shirt?
Not likely. The Dodgers stopped sewing "Brooklyn" on their traveling uniforms before Jackie Robinson's rookie season. But he'll be wearing a Brooklyn cap.
61 posted on 12/22/2015 10:16:22 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: tumblindice
“the statue will be 9 to 10 feet tall”
Jackie was a giant.
Some people forget that if Buzzie Bavasi had had his way Jackie Robinson would have become a Giant for 1957.

Robinson had decided to retire and wrote a ghosted essay saying so for Life at about the same time Bavasi decided to trade him to the Giants. The story was published about the same time the deal was announced and Robinson was tempted not to retire---the Giants were said to be offering him very good money to play another year.

But when Bavasi made a wisecrack, "I know Robinson and he loves money, and now he'll play for the Giants so he can make even more money," Robinson decided the retirement had to stick because he didn't want to look like what he wasn't, a mere money grubber.

It's long lost, but there was said to have been a cartoon in one of the New York papers showing Jackie Robinson as a Giant batting against Sal Maglie as a Dodger.

(Maglie, remember, was a June 1956 pickup by the Dodgers from the Cleveland Indians, and he helped shore up the pitching staff and make the last Brooklyn pennant possible. At the time of the Robinson-to-the-Giants dustup, Maglie was still a Dodger; they'd move him to the Yankees during the 1957 season.)

62 posted on 12/22/2015 10:21:56 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: dennisw
I have nothing against Jackie Robinson but putting his statue there is PC nonsense.
Not at all. Remove Robinson the colour barrier breaker, focus on him strictly as a major league baseball player, and you can make a case that Robinson strictly by the numbers (he might have another one or two seasons to add to them, perhaps, had his knees not begun betraying him in 1955; he was 28 when he came to the Dodgers) may have been the greatest all-around position player (and probably the best middle infielder) in the franchise's history.

As for the next Dodger to get a statue at Dodger Stadium? That's a no-brainer---Koufax.

63 posted on 12/22/2015 10:34:19 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: BluesDuke

You know your stuff!!!

But the first LA Dodgers statue should be Don Drysdale...then Sandy Koufax when he passes on


64 posted on 12/22/2015 10:44:46 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
But the first LA Dodgers statue should be Don Drysdale...then Sandy Koufax when he passes on
If Koufax is the greatest pitcher in franchise history (and he is, pending the conclusion of Clayton Kershaw's career), why wait until he's dead? (Even if the man himself might think it a little on the foolish side, knowing Koufax.)
65 posted on 12/22/2015 11:04:09 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: BluesDuke

I admit its in the past a bit but the usual practice is that living people don’t get statues made of them. You are tempting the fates.


66 posted on 12/22/2015 11:11:44 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw
I admit its in the past a bit but the usual practice is that living people don’t get statues made of them. You are tempting the fates.
Wouldn't be the first or last time, I'm sure. ;)
67 posted on 12/22/2015 11:12:32 PM PST by BluesDuke (BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
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To: EveningStar

Thanks for the list. It made me think, a lot.


68 posted on 12/23/2015 2:19:37 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Michael.SF.

I’m a cradle Dodgers fan. Went to my first games there. Used to sit on the back porch with my grandpa listening to Scully on the radio. But over the past couple years I’ve been stadium and it’s been horrible.

I won’t go again.


70 posted on 12/23/2015 8:17:57 AM PST by Fundamentally Fair (Pictionary at the Rorschach's tonight!)
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