Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ESPN's telecast of the game in new York's Shea Stadium commemorating the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut, former Mets third baseman Ed Charles read a poem he had written upon Robinson 's death in 1972. The final stanza went: "So go now, and rest for a while/ For again you shall come, a spirit aflame/ In the form of another black child/ That God and destiny shall name...
...year-old had won the Masters or that any golfer had outstripped his competition by 12 strokes, the largest margin of victory in a major tournament in this century. Neither reality seemed as significant, though, as the color of his skin, because almost 50 years to the day that Robinson integrated baseball, Woods became the first nonwhite victor of what was once the whitest of all golf tournaments...
...Robinson Professor of Business Administration James I. Cash was issued a subpoena through his attorney to testify before the Waltham, Mass. District Court this Thursday...
...Binkowski ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 Harris ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wilke ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 TOTALS 36 4 10 2 4 6 UMASS IP H R ER BB SO Puleri 3 4 3 3 2 0 Robinson, W (2-0) 5 3 1 0 2 4 Hartman 1 3 0 0 0 2 HARVARD IP H R ER BB SO Marcucci 1 3 3 2 1 0 Schafer 2 3 0 0 2 1 Duffell 1 1 0 0 1 0 Hogan...
...seems that some would like to interpret Ellen's outing as a landmark event. She is being heralded as the Jackie Robinson of the gay community. In fact, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has declared a national "Come out with Ellen" day built around the consequential episode. Even the mainstream news coverage has worn a revolutionary tone: "Roll over, Ward Cleaver," proclaimed one headline. One is almost convinced by the sheer weight of the collective media reaction that this event is important to our culture...