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Before April 15, 1947, there was a famous saying about baseball: the grass is green, the dirt is brown and the players are white. Fifty years ago this week, a rookie first bagger for the Brooklyn Dodgers stepped into the batters box in Ebbets field and changed the face of...
This bifurcation is exacerbated because Robinson played so long ago. Jackie Robinson the man fought for equality on and off the field. As a lieutenant in the Army, Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to relinquish his seat to a white man on a bus. He was vindicated later when...
I wish I could really remember the time in 1950 when my dad took me to Ebbetts Field to see Jackie Robinson play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But I was only three years old, and the day is a blur. No matter, my dad explained to me many years later...
When Robinson took the field with the Dodgers for the first time on April 12, 1947, America was wallowing in apartheid. A year before Robinson's breakthrough, Major League Baseball had conducted a secret study of the impact of allowing black athletes to play the national game. It concluded that...
This sentiment was echoed by fervent Dodgers fan and former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers.