Thank You, Jackie Robinson

11:01 pm EST April 15th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

A lot of the times it’s “just sports”, and people take it way too seriously.

When Jackie Robinson crossed baseball’s color line, it wasn’t “just sports” and it helped make America a better place.

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4 Responses to “Thank You, Jackie Robinson”

  1. fd10801 says:
    April 15, 2007 at 11:19 pm

    From 1996
    http://www.isteve.com/JackieRobinson.htm

    [Oliver: I don't normally do this, but Steve Sailer is a racist who pushes all kinds of crazy theories about genetics and I'd rather not have a link from my site to his. If you want to read the article, just cut and paste the url. Thanks, and sorry Frank.]

  2. fd10801 says:
    April 16, 2007 at 12:54 am

    How’s this: [You can delete the prior comment]

    http://poorfrank.blogspot.com/2007/04/competition-v.html

  3. SaveFarris says:
    April 16, 2007 at 8:35 am

    Did you see the Brewers/Cardinals game? Everyone in uniform on both teams wore #42. Was an incredible tribute to an incredible man.

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    April 16, 2007 at 11:32 am

    And an honorable mention to Pee Wee Reese who acted the way his mama taught him.