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Yesterday, baseball celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut:
During Sunday evening’s ceremony, 28 Dodgers stood along the third-base line, 28 42s shoulder to shoulder, no names across the backs, the faces white, black, Latin, Asian.
Fantastic.
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I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, …
Its heartwarming. I wish they’d done it across the league.
It was fantastic, but I am glad it was voluntary through much of the league. I loved seeing Andruw Jones wearing 42, I just do not think it would be the same on Chipper.
You might enjoy this article, too.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4714395.html
From the Yahoo article, “In Oakland, where the New York Yankees played, Mariano Rivera wore his grandfathered 42…”
How does that work, Sars? Did Rivera have the number before the league-wide retirement, and refuse to give it up, or is there a larger story?
I believe that players who were wearing 42 at the time MLB decided to retire the number were given the option of continuing to wear it as long as they liked; when Rivera retires, or if he elects to switch numbers before then, the Yankees will retire 42 permanently.
Wow. What a lovely piece. Good for Ken Griffey jr for getting that started. It’s true–10 years ago there were players, African-American players, who had no idea who Robinson was or how he’d made their careers possible. It’s beautiful that he got that tribute this year.
The week Jackie Robinson died, Mike Royko (writing at the time for the Chicago Sun-Times, I think) wrote a fantastically moving column about the first time Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers played the Cubs, because he was there to see it. Can you imagine? Not that I don’t love your baseball columns, Sars, but that column struck me to the core.
This is very cool. I’m really proud to be an Ohio Wesleyan University alum, the same school that Branch Rickey went to. And if you are a Jackie Robinson fan, you should learn about the man who made it all happen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Rickey
Baseball is cool.
There have been articles on Yahoo.com and ESPN the Magazine about the declining ration of black baseball players. C. C. Sabathia is quoted as calling it a crisis. But is it? Isn’t it just a case of young black atheletes choosing to go out more for basketball or football, and not the case that their opportunites are restricted?