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...Branch Rickey was unhappy about the way his third-place Dodgers were playing baseball. In an after-dinner speech last week he remarked that some of his players were getting "a little complacent...
...difficulties at finding a job. Leaving home and the college sweetheart (Ruby Dee) he is later to marry, he gets on a Negro baseball team, travels in an old bus that doubles as a hotel and restaurant on long hauls through Jim Crow territory. Then Dodger Boss Branch Rickey (Minor Watson) offers him a contract with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse of the crowds, the rival teams...
...Jackie Robinson Story" makes clear the tremendous anti-Negro sentiment Robinson faced-not only on the part of fans but from his own team-mates. It also shows why Brooklyn Dodger president Branch Rickey had to select his man for this experiment with such great care, and why Robinson's ability to turn his other cheek made him the perfect choice. The film does not point out, however, the economic impetus behind Rickey's move...
Excellent characterizations are given in supporting roles by Minor Watson, as Rickey, and Richard Lane, as Clay Hopper, a Mississippi who managed the Montreal Royals when Robinson played for them. It is unfortunate that all of the baseball scenes could not have been filmed in the parks where they occurred, but this is a minor criticism. The same can be said for the facts that Robinson was slightly overweight when the picture was made and that Robby's batting stance had to be altered for the purposes of the camera. These are hardly noticeable and they certainly do not detract...
...Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie Sam Jethroe from Brooklyn's canny Branch Rickey...