Posted on 01/31/2019 10:59:06 AM PST by EveningStar
He was born 100 years ago in a red-clay corner of Georgia, though for many Americans, Jackie Robinson burst onto the stage fully formed in 1947, a 28-year-old rookie in Dodger flannels.
That’s the enduring image, the Robinson captured on film at Ebbets Field and fixed in the national imagination: the silent but dynamic hero, broad-shouldered and trim, shattering the color barrier as he ropes another liner, dances off third or hook-slides home in a cloud of dust.
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THIS is the man that deserves a national holiday, not MLK. One of the greatest Americans ever.
I’ve got icons on my desktop but never thought about taking pictures of them.
If you like that era of baseball Youtube has the 1952 Game 6 and 7 of the World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees from Ebbets Field. It is great, Mel Allen and Red Barber at the mic., Casey Stengle, Mickey Mantle, Phil Rizzuto - Duke Snyder, Jackie and Pee Wee Reese.
The black Republican who was bullied by racist Demokkrats back in the day.
#5 He still would be today.
The Gillette commercials were interesting. Nothing about toxic masculinity.
He passed away at 53. He really aged due to heat and diabetes problems.
It was ludicrous and outrageous that a man who was clearly one of the 10 best ballplayers of his time was kept out of the major leagues due to the color of his skin.
That problem was rectified, as it justly should have been.
The race baiters can shut-up now.
Let’s not forget that while he got away with insubordination while at Fort Riley, Lt. Robinson’s inappropriate behavior got him a court martial at Fort Hood.
Of course, his incapacitating injuries kept him from combat, but he seemed to have had a miraculous recovery by 1947.
Great ballplayer, great athlete, and yes, a great man.
Jackie Robinson was only the first black. Who cares.
Let us celebrate when sports has the first darker black female, with a bisexual brother, Asian grandfather, sub five feet tall with handicap, Catholic educated. When that day happens, let us celebrate.
One person’s Identity Politics is not another’s.
You are obsessed with surface irrelevancies.
If you object, you are a bigot bisexualphobe.
Icon?
What does that make of the countless hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died on the field of battle?
If I remember correctly he stole home plate by tormenting the pitcher. I don’t think any major league player accomplished that.
Sometimes we elevate people a little to high. We tend to lose perspective. Most would rather not be so famous and thrust into icon status. I am going by some of what Robinson and others have said over their lifetimes.
B.S.
The only people deserving a National holiday is Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman.
They actually had important results.
Remember the Left wants destruction, such as, irrelevant holidays.
They should be included as well.
Retiring the number 42 throughout baseball but making all of the players wear it on Jackie Robinson Day is a STUPID idea. Jackie himself would not have approved.
The real underlying cause of the diabetes and heart problems was Robinson's being overweight. I saw him play quite a number of times in his later years with the Dodgers and the extra poundage he was carrying was apparent. Too bad medical science hadn't evolved at that time to the point where losing extra poundage was one of the mainstays of treating Type 2 diabetes. One would think that a guy with Robinson's character would have complied with such medical advice if it was offered appropriately.
In 1964, Robinson the Republican objected to Goldwater as the candidate. Saying, “Goldwaterism is Hitlerism,” he turned Left and never looked back.
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