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Before April 15, 1947, there was a famous saying about baseball: the grass is green, the dirt is brown and the players are white. Fifty years ago this week, a rookie first bagger for the Brooklyn Dodgers stepped into the batters box in Ebbets field and changed the face of the game forever. Acting Commissioner Bud Selig explained the significance of Jackie R. Robinson's act, saying that for most of its time baseball has believed in the principle that no player is above the game, except Jackie Robinson...
...parents were Jewish immigrants who met while working in New York's garment trade. The family moved to a decayed section of Brooklyn, where Wald spent his youth...
Valedictorian and vice-president of his class in high school, Wald received his undergraduate degree from Washington Square College of New York University, the first college on the subway line from Brooklyn...
Mayer grew up in Sheepshead Bay, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. He studied business management at City College of New York and received a culinary-arts degree from the Boston School of Cookery...
...wish I could really remember the time in 1950 when my dad took me to Ebbetts Field to see Jackie Robinson play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But I was only three years old, and the day is a blur. No matter, my dad explained to me many years later, he wanted me to be in the presence of history. The hopes and fears of millions of African Americans were inextricably connected with every clutch hit, every stolen base, every acrobatic catch in Robinson's career. Not just Robinson but an entire race was coming to the plate--and he knew...