I met Rachel Robinson once, back in the early 90's, when she was doing a book tour and hit the Waldenbooks I was working at at the time. She could not have been a nicer, more engaging woman and I'm very happy I still have the book she signed for me.
Maybe I'll go to hell for this but, you know, is there a single person under the age of 90 in America who is not either (a) sporting a German-script tattoo or (b) in state prison who thinks that the integration of baseball was a bad thing? Okay, given that, do we need a Jackie Robinson day every year? Retire No. 42 for everyone? Big anniversaries? Sure, but the racial integration of sports is hardly something we need to show solidarity for anymore.
Okay, that said, I'm glad that Comcast sports is at least taking the "everyone is No. 42" thing seriously and that they've made the players' statistics show up as No. 42 each time they show something on the broadcast.
Mike Royko, 10/25/1972 (second exceprt).
ReplyDeleteI met Rachel Robinson once, back in the early 90's, when she was doing a book tour and hit the Waldenbooks I was working at at the time. She could not have been a nicer, more engaging woman and I'm very happy I still have the book she signed for me.
Sorry, guest was me.
ReplyDeleteIt is funny that the NYT synopsis doesn't mention something.
ReplyDeletethe actual game story ... doesn't mention Robinson at all.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll go to hell for this but, you know, is there a single person under the age of 90 in America who is not either (a) sporting a German-script tattoo or (b) in state prison who thinks that the integration of baseball was a bad thing? Okay, given that, do we need a Jackie Robinson day every year? Retire No. 42 for everyone? Big anniversaries? Sure, but the racial integration of sports is hardly something we need to show solidarity for anymore.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that said, I'm glad that Comcast sports is at least taking the "everyone is No. 42" thing seriously and that they've made the players' statistics show up as No. 42 each time they show something on the broadcast.