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Major League Baseball has just completed its season-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's arrival in the game. The number he wore during his 10 years with the Brooklyn Dodgers--42--was permanently retired from use by all teams. Tributes were offered, speeches made. And some of the ensuing applause sounded suspiciously like people, including those who run baseball these days, patting themselves on the back...
...league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from a black Methodist minister who befriended him in his troubled adolescence, Jackie imbibed the belief that God had plans for him. Sure enough, an implausible design took shape. Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, plucked Robinson out of the obscurity of the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 and asked him if he could accept the terms of making history, with all the abuse that would ensue. "I'm looking," Rickey famously said, "for a ball player with guts enough...
...Lynnfield Pioneers are based in Brooklyn, and two members, Mike Janson and Dan Cook, hail from Lynnfield, Mass. Cook and Janson share the singing and guitar playing duties, and J.P. Jones holds the band together on drums. They are one of a number of new bands to play without a bassist. Emerge is their first full-length album on Matador Records, following a series of EPs released on that label. The band formed in 1995, when Janson and Cook, then roommates, began to record casually...
...decision to cast Leigh is a big risk with big payoffs. Most famous for playing hookers and addicts in films like Last Exit to Brooklyn and Georgia, Leigh's participation in a costume drama is an almost absurd proposition...
...more innocent time, Marvin Aufrichtig would stage what he called "the Hamster Olympics" at the family home in Brooklyn. Marv, an aspiring sportscaster, would do the play-by-play as his hamsters competed against one another in a series of events. Their names were Ambrose and Zachary...