Its Jackie Robinson Day!

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Tuesday, April 15

Major League Baseball announces league-wide commemoration details for 2014 Jackie Robinson Day
All Players to Once Again Wear Number 42 on April 15th with Clubs Hosting On-field Ceremonies at Ballparks.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140414&content_id=72021872&vkey=pr_mlb&c_id=mlb

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1. A good scene

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2. "Dear Mr. President, He was out! "

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1008/potus_gets_gift_from_berra.html

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7. Ha!

Great pic!

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3. To Jackie!

Mahalo, ellen~

[Behind the Aegis]

4. This may not be well known about Jackie Robinson.

Jackie Robinson Was Hero of Fight Against Both Racism and Anti-Semitism

Robinson was always quick to criticize anti-Semitism in the black community, according to Stephen Norwood, a professor at the University of Oklahoma who co-wrote a scholarly article on Robinson’s relationship with Jews.

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A remarkable man for a variety of things!

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5. ... on July 6, 1944, Robinson “became entangled in a dispute that threatened to end

his military service in disgrace.” While riding on a military bus returning to a hospital from “the colored officers club,” Robinson sat next to Virginia Jones, the wife of one of his fellow officers. Jones looked white — at least the white bus driver thought so. After a few blocks, the driver abruptly ordered Robinson “to move to the back of the bus.” Robinson, justifiably outraged, refused. Among other things, he had read that segregation was no longer allowed on military buses ... “The bus driver asked me for my identification card. I refused to give it to him. He then went to the Dispatcher and told him something. What he told him I don’t know. He then comes back and tells the people that this nigger is making trouble. I told the driver to stop f—in with me, so he gets the rest of the men around there and starts blowing his top and someone calls the MP’s” Robinson was placed under “arrest in quarters,” which meant that “he would be considered under arrest at the hospital, although without a guard. Robinson was then taken to the hospital in a police pickup truck” ... Robinson was transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion on July 24, “where the commander signed orders to prosecute him.” On that day, he was arrested. Rampersad says that “At 1:45 in the afternoon on August 2, the case of The United States v. 2nd Lieutenant Jack R. Robinson, 0-10315861, Cavalry, Company C, 758th Tank Battalion, began.” Robinson’s fate was in the hands of nine men, eight of them white ... After a four-hour trial, Robinson was exonerated: “Robinson secured at least the four votes (secret and written) needed for his acquittal. He was found ‘not guilty of all specifications and charges’” ...

Was Jackie Robinson Court-Martialed?
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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6. Thanks.

Interesting.

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8. And here's to you

Mr. Robinson