LOS ANGELES (AP)-- There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' ...
LOS ANGELES - There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern major-league baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
It might be the greatest line in the history of sports movies. There's no evidence that Dodgers legend Pee Wee Reese said these exact words to Jackie Robinson, but in the movie 42, he shares these ...
The most famous uniform number in baseball, not to mention all of sports, is 42, and with good reason. It is the number Jackie Robinson wore when he made his Brooklyn Dodgers debut on April 15, 1947, ...