Baseball season is back, even on At the Movies. This week Peter Travers, bat in hand, discusses the new Jackie Robinson biopic, 42: The True Story of.
COMMENTARY | On April 15, 2013, Major League Baseball commemorates the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the league's color barrier in 1947. Once again, players around the league get the opportunity to don the familiar No. 42 in honor of
Jackie Robinson was one of the best players in baseball during his era and in his best years, there wasn't a more complete ballplayer to ever wear Dodger blue.
On June 15, 1963, Jackie Robinson sent a telegram to President John F. Kennedy urging him do everything within his power to protect Martin Luther King Jr. "The world cannot afford to lose him to the whims of murderous maniacs," Robinson said in the
Movie pays tribute to Jackie Robinson. For many baseball fans, the number 42 holds an almost sacred significance. So it's only fitting that Jackie Robinson's story would one day be immortalized in a big-budget Hollywood film. NBC's Rehema Ellis reports.
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