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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. The example of his character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement.
In addition to his cultural impact, Robinson had an exceptional baseball career. Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Championship. He was selected for six consecutive All-Star Games from 1949 to 1954, was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. In 1997, Major League Baseball retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams.
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
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Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: A box score - you know a box score is really democratic, Jackie. It doesn't say how big you are or how your father voted in the last election or what church you attend. It just tells you what kind of a ballplayer you were that day.::Jackie Robinson: Well, isn't that what counts?::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: It's all that ought to count, and maybe someday it's all that will count.
Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: We're tackling something big here, Jackie. If we fail, no one will try it again for twenty years. But if we succeed...::Clyde Sukeforth, Dodger Scout: If we succeed, Brooklyn will win a pennant.::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: Yes, that too. But we're dealing with rights here. The right of any American to play baseball, the American game. You think he's our boy, Clyde?::Clyde Sukeforth, Dodger Scout: Well, he can run, he can hit, and he can field.::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: But can he take it?::Clyde Sukeforth, Dodger Scout: That I don't know.::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: What do you think, Jackie?::Jackie Robinson: Well, I can try.::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: Think you've got guts enough to play the game no matter what happens? They'll shout insults at you. They'll come into you spikes first. They'll throw at your head.::Jackie Robinson: They've been throwing at my head for a long time, Mr. Rickey.::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: Suppose I'm a player in the heat of an important game. Suppose I collide with you at second base and when I get up I say, 'You - you dirty black so-and-so!' What do you do?::Jackie Robinson: Mr. Rickey, do you want a ballplayer who's afraid to fight back?::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: I want a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back. You got to do this job with base hits, stolen bases, and fielding ground balls, Jackie. Nothing else! Now I'm playing against you in a World Series and I'm hot-headed. I want to win this game. So I go into you spikes first. You jab the ball in my ribs and the umpire says, 'Out.' I flare. All I can see is your black face - that black face right over me. So I haul off and punch you right in the cheek. What do you do?::Jackie Robinson: Mr. Rickey, I've got two cheeks.::Branch Rickey, President Brooklyn Dodgers: Good.
Actors: Tim Ware (actor), Alan Tudyk (actor), Christopher Meloni (actor), John C. McGinley (actor), Henry G. Sanders (actor), James Pickens Jr. (actor), Matt Clark (actor), Brett Cullen (actor), Walter Hendrix III (actor), Toby Huss (actor), Harrison Ford (actor), Joe Inscoe (actor), Max Gail (actor), Brian Helgeland (writer), Rhoda Griffis (actress),
Plot: In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it.
Keywords: 1940s, african-american, athlete, baseball, baseball-game, baseball-hat, baseball-movie, baseball-player, baseball-star, baseball-teamActors: James Huang (editor), James Huang (producer), Vincent Rutherford (actor), Anna Musso (producer), Anna Musso (director), Anna Musso (writer), Vince Pavia (actor), Johnny Pruitt (actor), Ali Morgan (actor), Innocenzo LaRocca (actor), Carlyn Sarah Connolly (actress), Daniel Hartney (writer), Daniel Hartney (director), Artie Valentino (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Short, Sport,Actors: Muhammad Ali (actor), Michael Jordan (actor), Babe Ruth (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), Robert Guenette (producer), David L. Wolper (producer), Robert Guenette (writer), Robert Guenette (director), Gary Anthony Sturgis (actor), Mohandas K. Gandhi (actor), Ron Nelson (writer), David Lanphier Jr. (miscellaneous crew), Albert Lloyd Olson (composer), Robert Leeburg (producer), Julian Ludwig (producer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Isaiah Washington (actor), Mykelti Williamson (actor), Blair Underwood (actor), Delroy Lindo (actor), Bob Minor (actor), Richard Riehle (actor), Jerry Hardin (actor), Edward Herrmann (actor), Jeff Coopwood (actor), Cylk Cozart (actor), R. Lee Ermey (actor), Obba Babatundé (actor), Guy Boyd (actor), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (actress), Edith Fields (actress),
Plot: Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are the greatest players in the Colored leagues, and everyone expects that one of them will make the leap to the Major Leagues, now that there is talk of integration. But, unexpectedly, it's the rookie with the army record, Jackie Robinson, that gets tapped to be the first.
Keywords: african-american, baseball, baseball-movie, birmingham-alabama, black-romance, friendship, racialActors: Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Madonna (actress), Victor Argo (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Lou Reed (actor), Roseanne Barr (actress), RuPaul (actor), Michael Badalucco (actor), Michael J. Fox (actor), Richard Conte (actor), Keith David (actor), Jim Jarmusch (actor), Jared Harris (actor), Lily Tomlin (actress), Mira Sorvino (actress),
Plot: Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.
Keywords: ad-lib, brooklyn-new-york-city, cigar-shop, color-in-title, independent-film, new-york-city, red-panties, sequelActors: Ruby Dee (actress), Noble Willingham (actor), Andre Braugher (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Glenn Morshower (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), Daniel Stern (actor), Robert DoQui (actor), Dale Dye (actor), Jim Beaver (actor), Paul Dooley (actor), Michael Greene (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Frank von Zerneck (producer), Robert M. Sertner (producer),
Plot: The early life of the future baseball star is told here. Jackie Robinson was a young college student and athlete who learned never to take racist attacks lying down. This eventually gets him into trouble when he is drafted in World War II and assigned to a Texas training camp deep in the racist south. The film climaxes when Jackie Robinson must face a court-martial for insubordination when he refused to go to the back of the bus when the white bus driver ordered him, knowing that he was in his rights to do so.
Keywords: 1940s, african-american, army-life, character-name-in-title, civil-rights, court-martial, courtroom, racism, world-war-two