Neither America nor baseball could have any legitimacy when they deprived the dreams and opportunity of their children. At its core, baseball, like the nation that gave birth to it, is about aspirations; to teamwork,
I never saw Jackie Robinson play. In the Dominican Republic when I was kid, not many people had a TV. My family didn't. We had a radio. All the time on the radio I was hearing, Robinson thisRobinson thatRobinson, Robinson, Robinson. The great
that link sports with significant, nonathletic historical events and social issues. In America those events and issues almost always have to do with race, which makes the life of Jackie Robinson especially ripe for sweeping, comprehensive treatment.
PHILADELPHIA - April 12, 2013 (WPVI) -- The movie "42," the story of Jackie Robinson, hits the big screen this weekend and the baseball great's legacy continues to inspire others. "Just a different time and different place," said Michael Nerthling.
There is no greater story in sports than Robinson breaking baseball's color line on April 15, 1947. Yet there was little sense of that history that day in the sports pages of daily newspapers, even in New York City.
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