Jackie Robinson Again

Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball. Learn more at Biography.com.So unless you're heartless, being purposely obtuse or just way too cool for a movie version of Jackie Robinson, "42" is going to leave you feeling good about baseball, cheering Robinson and booing racism. In about the most paint-by-numbers way possible.I'll catch the new Jackie Robinson movie, “42,” over the weekend—it's great, friends say—but I need no sports-clip reminders or careful re-creations to bring his front-footed swing or his shouldering, headlong style on the base paths clearly backThere is no greater story in sports than Robinson breaking baseball's color line on April 15, 1947. Yet there was little sense of that history that day in the sports pages of daily newspapers, even in New York City.“This is a celebration of Jackie

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