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The Jackie Robinson Story (Eagle-Lion) tells how the Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman struggled to make good as the first Negro to play openly in big-league baseball. It might have been a powerful movie stating the case for the U.S. Negro in terms that combined authenticity, drama and...
"When the Oxford Dodgers went in for the second time, however, they provided the real excitement of the day, for they managed to make all their bases 'loaded,' and then one of their players hit a beautiful 'homer.' As an American woman said: 'He fair picklel that ball.'"
There is a certain amount of schmaltz toward the end of the picture, but it cannot be avoided in a movie of this kind. Robinson was a paragon of All-American boys (he had a newspaper route) and his story could only be written "in a country where every American...
When the exuberant young Phillies bounded into third place in the final National League standings last year, lethargic Philadelphia fans, long used to their last-place finishes (eight in the last 13 years) became moderately aroused. Last week, with the Phillies challenging the Brooklyn Dodgers for first place, nearly everybody...
In the National League the champion Brooklyn Dodgers confidently started 1949's rookie-of-the-year, Right-Hander Don Newcombe, against the rejuvenated Philadelphia Phillies. Newcombe, who heard himself described all winter as a pitcher who could win 30 games this year, was able to finish just one inning...