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.
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.
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.