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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. The Dodgers, by playing Robinson, ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
Robinson had an exceptional 10-year baseball career. He was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947, was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954, and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949—the first black player so honored. Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers' 1955 World Series championship. In 1997, MLB "universally" retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams; he was the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored. MLB also adopted a new annual tradition, "Jackie Robinson Day", for the first time on April 15, 2004, on which every player on every team wears No. 42.
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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.
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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-twoJackie Robinson was a man who swung a bat
And because he was so good at it, he became much more
than that
He was the first man of color in the game
He rose from the Negro leagues in the fame
Into a world that was begging for change
..they gave him a shout out calling his name!
Chorus:
Jackie, Robinson
Jackie, Robinson
Jackie! It changed the way we play the game
The game, play ball!
Baseball, football, basketball on jumping track
He was a world class athlete, no world was gonna hold
him back
Oh, he was caught up to rise above the shame,
The slurs and the threats that she overcame.
His courage belongs in the hall of fame
And in the... they gave him a shout out calling him his
name.
Chorus:
Jackie, Robinson
Jackie, Robinson
Jackie! It changed the way we play the game
The game, play ball!
He was the first name of color in the game
He rose from the Negro leagues and the fame
Into a world that was begging for change
..they gave him a shout out calling him his name.
Chorus: (x2)
Jackie, Robinson
Jackie, Robinson
Jackie! It changed the way we play the game