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Boy Who Refused to Wrestle Girl Might End Up Wrestling History Instead

The whole country now knows who Joel Northrup is, which is what can happen when someone is cast as either a hard-headed, backward-thinking coward or a courageous hero of his religious faith. As a 10th-grader, yet. So, you sure hope that his father, Jamie, gave his son sound advice that truly is going to benefit him not...

Truly, the Most Interesting Man in the World

Jonathan Goldsmith is not a household name. His Dos Equis beer commercials, however, have made him a familiar face. Spend a little time with the man behind the ads, and you learn there is a common bond between the character and the man himself. The following is a list of some of his more memorable life experiences: *...

Bob Feller's Brainstorm Helped Pave Way for Baseball Integration

Just before the 1946 World Series between the Red Sox and Cardinals started early that October, what would prove to be a historically more significant baseball tournament opened in Pittsburgh. It featured competing teams of all-stars. One was from the all-white major leagues. The other was from the Negro Leagues, where...

UCLA Faces Uphill Climb in CWS

OMAHA, Neb. -- UCLA baseball has its share of supporters, and its heritage includes famous faces from Jackie Robinson to Chase Utley. Yet, it's not like the Bruins are a hot ticket in Los Angeles. Even UCLA head coach John Savage admits the west coast culture is probably more conducive to other activities than college...

Baseball Not Fooling Aaron With Jackie Robinson Day

The other day, Hank Aaron and I huddled for our latest discussion -- and we've had many over the last 30 years -- on how the number of African-Americans in baseball has dwindled to a ridiculous few. "Every single day, even when I watch the Atlanta Braves, I say to myself, 'It's a shame that they have a coach and a...

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Jackie Robinson Honored By MLB With Ballpark Tributes

LaTroy Hawkins has heard the stories from his 87-year-old grandfather, about his days of picking cotton in Mississippi, about the times when there were no black players in big league baseball.

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05/27/12 Port Adelaide coach Matthew Primus hails his players'... Source: Perth News www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film starring baseball legend Jackie Robinson as himself.
05/24/12 Garfield youth win Jackie Robinson essay contest Source: NorthJersey.com - Hackensack NJ Two Garfield Middle School students won the 2012 Breaking Barriers Essay contest sponsored by Scholastic in collaboration with Major League Baseball honoring Jackie Robinson, the late Brooklyn Dodger who broke baseball's color line in 1947.
05/23/12 First Look: Chadwick Boseman & Nicole Beharie In Brian... Source: The Playlist With production underway on Brian Helgeland 's Jackie Robinson biopic " 42 ," we now have a number of set photos that provide us our first looks at newcomer Chadwick Boseman and " Shame " star Nicole Beharie respectively portraying Robinson and his wife, Rachel Isum. The story, of course, centers the rise of Robinson, the first African-American baseballer in the Major League, and the controversy that surrounded the move with another actor also added to the roster in Lucas Black (star of the original " Friday Night Lights " movie) who'll play shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a Dodgers player who embraced Robinson as soon as he joined.
05/22/12 Jackie Robinson movie '42' begins filming at Engel... Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press - Chattanooga TN For Wayne Hickey Jr., landing a role as an umpire in the movie "42" is especially meaningful.
05/22/12 Extras have more than '42' reasons to make movie,... Source: NBC - WRCB 3 - Chattanooga TN Much of the trick to making movies is moving when told.

Background on Jackie Robinson

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era.

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