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1. The other Jackie Robinson

Author

Hyman, Stanley Edgar

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, Chock Full O'Nuts Corp. -- Officials and employees -- 00301660
Published
1997

2. Crossing the bar

Author

Deford, Frank

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, Discrimination in sports -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1997

4. Jackie Robinson

Author

Halberstam, David

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum -- Membership, African American baseball players -- Biography, Baseball players -- Biography, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1986

6. Remembering Jackie Robinson

Author

Curvin, Robert

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American athletes -- Biography, Baseball players -- Biography, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1982

8. Major league baseball honors Jackie Robinson

Author

Donnellon, Sam

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, Baseball (Professional) -- Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Achievements and awards, Discrimination in sports -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

NEW YORK _ People use history for several things. They use it to justify. They use it to condemn. If they're smart, if they try to enjoin the past with […]

Published
1997

9. Reserve Kirby the only black player with Dodgers

Author

Donnellon, Sam

Subjects
Los Angeles Dodgers -- Personalities, Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Management, African American athletes -- Biography, Discrimination in sports -- History, Baseball (Professional) -- Social policy, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

NEW YORK _ Fifty years later, the irony is not lost on Wayne Kirby. As baseball paid tribute to Jackie Robinson Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers' reserve outfielder was […]

Published
1997

10. Baseball and black America have grown apart

Author

Smallwood, John

Subjects
Los Angeles Dodgers -- Personalities, Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, Baseball (Professional) -- Social policy, African American baseball players -- Management, African American athletes -- Biography, Discrimination in sports -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

NEW YORK _ This was too easy. The irony of this was too precious. On the night major league baseball celebrated the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color […]

Published
1997

11. In Robinson's hometown, residents will erect life-size statue of him

Author

Ensley, Gerald

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes, Discrimination in sports -- History, Racism -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

CAIRO, Ga. _ You drive five miles southwest from town on State Road 111, past farms and nurseries. Just past the fourth bridge, you turn and go one mile southeast. […]

Published
1997

12. Jackie Robinson story one of triumph and inspiration

Author

Holtzclaw, Mike

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Achievements and awards, Discrimination in sports -- History, Racism -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

Back then, the nation revolved around baseball. Far from its comparable irrelevance today, the sport was a bellwether; when baseball sneezed, America caught cold. That's why Jackie Robinson changed more […]

Published
1997

13. Remember what Tiger Woods is -- and is not

Author

Robertson, Linda

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, Masters Tournament (Golf) -- 1997 AD, Golfers -- Achievements and awards, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Achievements and awards, Discrimination in sports -- History, Racism -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

MIAMI - Tiger Woods won The Masters on Sunday and was saluted with such reverential rhetoric that you would have thought his stroll down the 18th fairway was comparable to […]

Published
1997

14. Jackie Robinson changed your world by playing a game

Author

Killion, Ann

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Achievements and awards, Discrimination in sports -- History, African Americans -- Behavior, Racism -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ As you go about your life on Tuesday _ when you drop your kids off at school, lift weights at the gym or sit in a […]

Published
1997

15. The anniversary: Why all should care

Author

Albom, Mitch

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Achievements and awards, Discrimination in sports -- History, Racism -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

DETROIT - 'Robinson, I need a man that will take abuse and insults. If some guy slides into you and calls you a black so-and-so, you'd come up swinging. And […]

Published
1997

16. 1950 Jackie Robinson film a trail blazer

Author

Leddy, Bob

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, The Jackie Robinson Story (Motion picture) -- Criticism and interpretation, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Achievements and awards, Discrimination in sports -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

PROVIDENCE -- The golden anniversary of Jackie Robinson's breaking the color barrier in major league baseball has to include mention of the 1950 film The Jackie Robinson Story, in which […]

Published
1997

18. Beyond the Jackie Robinson celebration, there is still much work to be done

Author

Peterson, Gary

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Employment, Coaches (Athletics) -- Employment, Baseball (Professional) -- Social policy, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, Jackie. How are things with you? Everybody here and by here, I mean Bud Selig's happy little kingdom is feeling pretty good about themselves. They're knocking themselves out […]

Published
1997

19. Frank Robinson and Jackie Robinson are forever linked

Author

Chi, Victor

Subjects
Cincinnati Reds -- Personalities, Baltimore Orioles -- Officials and employees, San Francisco Giants -- Officials and employees, Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American baseball managers -- Biography, Baseball (Professional) -- Social policy, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography, Robinson, Frank -- Biography
Abstract

SAN JOSE, Calif. - They are linked by surname, by the calendar and by pioneering achievement. As Terry Cashman sang in his nostalgic 'Talkin' Baseball: Willie, Mickey and The Duke,' […]

Published
1997

20. Enos Slaughter's rebuttal: Cardinals' great decries claim that he tried to harm Jackie Robinson

Author

Olson, Stan

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, St. Louis Cardinals -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Evaluation, Baseball players -- Behavior, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

When Jackie Robinson reached the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the spring of 1947, he was constantly abused by opposing players and taunted by fans. Some members of […]

Published
1997

21. Other pioneers came before and after Robinson

Author

Coffey, Wayne

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, National Hockey League -- History, National Basketball Association -- History, National Football League -- History, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Biography, Golf -- History, Tennis -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1997

22. Robinsons are seldom seen today in sports, although they are needed

Author

Cyphers, Luke

Subjects
National Football League -- Social policy, Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Employment, Race relations -- Analysis, Sports franchises -- Employment, Baseball (Professional) -- Social policy, Employment discrimination -- Analysis, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1997

23. Watson, only black GM, says Robinson's feat hasn't brought real change

Author

Giannone, John

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, New York Yankees -- Officials and employees, African American baseball players -- Biography, African Americans in business -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Race relations -- Analysis, Discrimination in sports -- Analysis, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1997

24. Robinson died having never made peace with baseball

Author

Bondy, Filip

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, Baseball (Professional) -- Social policy, Discrimination in sports -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1997

25. Robinson was the politically correct choice to break baseball's color line

Author

Clay, Gregory

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, Discrimination in sports -- History, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

Though it may seem somewhat oxymoronic for the era, major-league baseball had its own version of Political Correctness in the late 1940s. Jackie Robinson was the PC choice for Branch […]

Published
1997

27. Robinson found Philadelphia was the meanest place to play

Author

Kram, Mark

Subjects
Philadelphia Phillies -- Officials and employees, Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Behavior, Baseball managers -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Racism -- Analysis, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

PHILADELPHIA _ To Jackie Robinson back in the spring of 1947, Philadelphia was far what it purports to be: 'The City of Brotherly Love.' Before the Dodgers came to town […]

Published
1997

28. Robinson was a winner in a game with the biggest risk of all

Author

Conlin, Bill

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Appreciation, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Abstract

The 'Noble Experiment' was fraught with risks. Branch Rickey's plan to integrate the major leagues with a Negro league shortstop named Jackie Robinson had a strong chance to fail at […]

Published
1997

29. Family was his haven, but one of his children struggled with Robinson name

Author

Zinser, Lynn

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American baseball players -- Biography, African American athletes -- Family, Fathers and sons -- Personal narratives, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography, Robinson, Jackie, Jr. -- Biography
Abstract

The harrowing parts of becoming the first black major-league baseball player in 1947 were so painful to Jackie Robinson and his wife, Rachel, that they shoved those memories deep into […]

Published
1997

30. Remembering Jackie Robinson

Author

Curvin, Robert

Subjects
Brooklyn Dodgers -- Personalities, African American athletes -- Biography, Baseball players -- Biography, Robinson, Jackie -- Biography
Published
1982

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