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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.
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TOPICS: History; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; colorline; dodgers; dodgerstadium; integration; jackierobinson; mlb; race; statue
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To: Artemis Webb
To: EveningStar
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posted on
12/22/2015 3:52:20 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: EveningStar
Gotta be one of Wally (Moon Shot) Moon first............!!!
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posted on
12/22/2015 3:58:04 PM PST
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: EveningStar
Their greatest player ever was Koufax. I guess they’re just anti-semitic (sigh).
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:01:21 PM PST
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
To: EveningStar
I am just fine with Jackie Robinson to be the first.
Assuming there will also be others over time, I believe Sandy Koufax was the most dominating pitcher in the game, at his peak.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:11:09 PM PST
by
truth_seeker
(come with the outlws.)
To: EveningStar
Ahhh, will he be wearing a BROOKLYN shirt?
To: EveningStar
An obvious choice and one that I would agree with. Others to consider:
Roy Campenella - Over 100,000 fans filled the Coliseum to pay tribute. Campy never played a game there as Dodger.
Walt Alston - Class act, great manager.
Vinnie - nuff said
Tommy - He bleeds Dodger blue
Koufax - Another class act. One of the, if not the best lefty ever.
Rick Monday - With the flag in hand (and yes, he was a Cubby then, but will always be a Dodger
Kirk Gibson - Pumping his arm of course.
Who did I miss?
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:19:59 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
To: truth_seeker
I am just fine with Jackie Robinson to be the first.I'm not. Although he was a Dodger, he was also a Bruin. He played football for UCLA, but the teams he was on never beat the USC Trojans.
To: bobby.223
Gotta be one of Wally (Moon Shot) Moon first............!!! I was 9 or 10, grabbed a moon shot HR ball and was in heaven for about three seconds, then some kid; 13 or 14 I guess, grabbed it and took off.
Easy come, easy go.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:24:51 PM PST
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Michael.SF.
(This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
To: EveningStar
I’d rather it be of Chick Hearn
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:26:44 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi Mom yes I know)
To: Michael.SF.
Leo Durocher.
He wasn’t that great a player but was a successful manager.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:29:33 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Michael.SF.
Rick Monday - With the flag in hand (and yes, he was a Cubby then, but will always be a Dodger
My favorite all-time player. The only lefty in the Dodger lineups on their World Series teams in the '70s.
Duke Snider's #4 was retired. He deserves serious consideration.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:35:09 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: Dr. Sivana
Duke Snider's #4 was retired. He deserves serious consideration. Agreed. I heard a story that as a high school football player he once threw a football out of the Coliseum. Not 100% sure it is true, but that story always stuck with me.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:40:02 PM PST
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Michael.SF.
(This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
To: al baby
Why?
The refrigerator door is closed on that one, the milk's getting cold and the butter is getting hard.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:41:31 PM PST
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Michael.SF.
(This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
To: Bringbackthedraft
He never played for the "Brooklyns", he played for the Dodgers:
;)
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:45:44 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
To: Michael.SF.
How about missing the obvious...
Steve Garvey and his many children conceived out of wedlock.
Poster boy for government dependency and he’s white, so, not racist.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:48:56 PM PST
by
PittsburghAfterDark
(The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
To: Michael.SF.
No one who has ever actually been in the Coliseum could ever imagine anyone even attempting to toss the ol’ oblate spheroid out of it. What Duke actually attempted, and this is well-chronicled and your memory just played a trick on you, is to throw a baseball out. He succeeded: in throwing his arm out.
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:52:55 PM PST
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: Dr. Sivana
Duke Snider's #4 was retired.The Dook has always been my fave, since the '55 Serious, so of course I made it a point to attend his retirement ceremony at the Stadium. It was fabulous: while the announcer introduced him and extolled his many accomplishments, the center field fence opened and Duke walked in, all the way to home plate, flanked by Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio, two of the three other great NY center fielders contemporaneous with Duke's Brooklyn era (I don't know where the Mick was).
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posted on
12/22/2015 4:59:23 PM PST
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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