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The Dugout: In Celebration of Ray Shook

On April 16th, 1916, Ray Shook suited up for the Chicago White Sox ... or so they say. I invite you to take a look at his career statistics. If the statistics are to be believed, Ray Shook played one career game, but made zero plate appearances. To boot, he did not pitch, and he did not field. Perhaps he was brought in as...

Jackie's Legacy Still Shines Brightly

NEW YORK -- Why? Why should we continue to celebrate Jackie Robinson all these years later? Why did every major league player, coach and manager have to wear Robinson's No. 42 Wednesday, confusing casual fans and serious scorekeepers who prefer baseball be guided by actual uniform numbers and not some artificial...

NBC Writer Uses 'Jackie Robinson' as Synonym for 'Monkey', Probably Getting Fired

I don't know this for a fact, but I think that golf writer Dan O'Neill (if that is your real name, Wanny) has probably written his last column for NBC. Why do I think that? Well, Dan, in an attempt to discuss Sergio Garcia's on-course struggles kind of glanced at the proverbial line, started running, jumped over it and...

Hollywood Honors Dodgers With a Star on the Walk of Fame

And welcome to the least juicy chunk of celebrity meets sports news you will hear all year long. The Dodgers, as in the entire Los Angeles history of the team, is having a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to them.The Hollywood Historic Trust and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce this Friday, June 20 at 11 am in...

Is Major League Baseball Shortchanging the Jackie Robinson Foundation?

That's what Sons of Steve Garvey are asking today, given the news that Major League Baseball is donating $1.2 million to the Jackie Robinson Foundation to fund scholarships over the next four years (at 300k per annum). The Sons make a pretty valid point that maybe the sum is greater than the whole, if that little...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

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.

JackieRobinson News From the Web

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 JackieRobinson

4319 Jackierobinson (1981 ER14) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K.

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