Word: robinsons
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LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: PORTRAITS OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER PARENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES Photographs by Gigi Kaeser, edited by Peggy Gillespie (University of Massachusetts Press) In most respects, these are ordinary families. "Our family life is a very traditional American one," says Doug Robinson, a member of one of the families, "--early-morning getting up, eating breakfast, getting dressed, making sure everyone has matching socks, getting the boys off to school and then going to work." But these families face a unique daily challenge: the intolerance of colleagues, relatives, neighbors and classmates. In this remarkable family album...
...great players from my generation, Frank Robinson (who was related to Jackie only in spirit), finally became the first black manager, in 1975. Jackie was gone by then. His last public appearance was at the 1972 World Series, where he showed up with white hair, carrying a cane and going blind from diabetes. He died nine days later...
...Babe Ruth's career record, and when Jackie died, I really felt that it was up to me to keep his dream alive. I was inspired to dedicate my home-run record to the same great cause to which Jackie dedicated his life. I'm still inspired by Jackie Robinson. Hardly a day goes by that I don't think...
There may have been some--a very few--who were better than these, but none had greater impact on how their games were played. Along with Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali and Pele, these were the people (and the animal) who shaped the century in sports...
...Ohio State in one of its drawers, he was able to support himself only by racing against horses as a sort of sideshow at Negro League baseball games. To TIME, he was variously the "coffee-colored" Owens, "the world's fastest blackamoor" or "the dusky speedster." But to Jackie Robinson and millions of other black Americans, he was inspiration and paladin, a sign of things to come...