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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It sure is.
The idea of giving a capsule biography of Robinson today is appropriate for the occasion, but today's politically correct New York Times omits the political activity of Robinson after the conclusion of his athletic career. The Times may wish to cover this up because Robinson was a REPUBLICAN and worked closely with longtime New York governor Nelson Rockefeller. The Times also carefully omits Robinson's career as a full-fledged capitalist as a corporate executive with Chock Full O' Nuts, a well-known coffee brand c. 1960.
One other notable omission in the article: Branch Rickey, the elderly white male Christian owner and general manager of the Dodgers, who defied the baseball establishment in the 1940s by signing Robinson with the thought of desegregating the game.
Kind of my view too
Nobody can race cuck enough today so why bother?
No no no he’s perfect like mlk
Get your race cuck house in order mister!
Agreed. Jackie didn't wear any professional baseball uniform other than that of the Dodgers (with the exception of the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League and the Montreal Royals of the International League, both of which were long extinct by that time). By the time the crooked leftist Commissioner Selig dictated that Robinson's number 42 should be retired by all MLB, the Dodgers had done the honor decades before.
This retirement of Robinson's number by teams he never played for - nor in some instances never even opposed - turns history on its head (which leftists love to do, in case you haven't noticed). Plus, the fans watching the games on Robinson Day have to put up with the spectacle of not being able to identify the players on the field by their numbers.
Amen! Amen!
Your opinion only. Those two are worthy, but not the “only” worthy.
More people pay attention to the National Pasttime than to history.
I am not one of them, but I deal with reality.
If you are knowledgeable on both general American history and baseball history, you will find that the two often intertwine, as they do with the story of Jackie Robinson.
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