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On Jackie Robinson’s 100th Birthday, 100 Photos of an Icon
The New York Times ^ | January 31, 2019 | Eric Moskowitz

Posted on 01/31/2019 10:59:06 AM PST by EveningStar

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To: Buckeye McFrog
Retiring the number 42 throughout baseball but making all of the players wear it on Jackie Robinson Day is a STUPID idea.

It sure is.

21 posted on 01/31/2019 2:49:55 PM PST by EveningStar (I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
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To: EveningStar; shortstop; henkster; BluesDuke; ml/nj; Sarah Barracuda; SunkenCiv; All
As a baseball fan who saw Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers at Ebbets Field and on live TV, I was aware of the 100th anniversary of his birth today.

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.

22 posted on 01/31/2019 3:11:42 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: TheNext

Kind of my view too

Nobody can race cuck enough today so why bother?


23 posted on 01/31/2019 3:12:01 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: PAR35

No no no he’s perfect like mlk

Get your race cuck house in order mister!


24 posted on 01/31/2019 3:12:54 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; EveningStar; ml/nj; shortstop; henkster; Sarah Barracuda; All
Retiring the number 42 throughout baseball but making all of the players wear it on Jackie Robinson Day is a STUPID idea.

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.

25 posted on 01/31/2019 3:36:13 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: minnesota_bound; OttawaFreeper
Commercial Photography
26 posted on 01/31/2019 3:41:42 PM PST by CaliforniaCraftBeer
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To: cowboyusa

Amen! Amen!


27 posted on 01/31/2019 3:58:26 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: TheNext

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.


28 posted on 01/31/2019 4:08:55 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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More people pay attention to the National Pasttime than to history.

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.

29 posted on 01/31/2019 6:19:38 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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