Blue Heaven (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... the Dodgers in Brooklyn : More celebrations from the 1955 World Series. Coach Bert Shotton has Jackie and Campy in his arms. Auction Link: 1955 WS Celebration : I know I have highlighted this photo in the past, but I figured it is worth another look. It is of Jackie Robinson signing autographs before his first game ever at Ebbets Field. It sold for $431.69 . Auction Link: Jackie...
Sports Collectors Daily (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
What do Jackie Robinson's life insurance, Reggie Jackson's World Series tickets and Ty Cobb's heating bill have in common?
Queens Crap (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... light at Woodhaven and Yellowstone Blvds. in Forest Hills. The stolen vehicle made a dash to the Jackie Robinson Parkway with a Blazer following close behind, Lanzieri said. "They were flying down it," Lanzieri said, adding that the thugs soon dumped the stolen SUV on a dead-end street off Pennsylvania Ave. in East New York, Brooklyn, and began to flee in the second vehicle....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... of those who can transcend the playing field and move the mountains for every generations to come. Jackie Robinson, Sweetwater Clifton, Kenny Washington and Willie O'Ree broke the color barriers in the respective sports, while Billie Jean King and others blazed trails for equality and equal opportunity for boys and girls. Then you have Nancy Lieberman . The now 50 year old New York...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... their expectations. Right now, according to The Sun-Times ‘ Gordon Wittenmyer , who wrote that ‘09 Jackie Robinson Day piece asking Bradley to stop being so damn uppity , says the Rays look to be the best bet so far: And Joe Maddon’s first impressions of Bradley when the two had lunch together last offseason are a big part of what makes his Tampa Bay Rays the front-runner to acquire...
Lost in the Ozone... (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... Gardens Interchange, a confluence of the Van Wyck Expressway, the Grand Central Parkway and the Jackie Robinson Parkway, according to representatives of the New York State Department of Transportation and the engineering firm of Hardesty and Hanover, LLP, at a presentation of multiple infrastructure and operational improvements at the Kew Gardens Interchange to the Queens Borough...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... of mine put it, "Food for thought about figureheads...Teenagers don't get respect!" Jackie Robinson was not the first black to play major league baseball , only the first one in several decades, which does not at all diminish his breakthrough. Meanwhile, the black players who reintegrated the NFL, friends of Robinson, BTW, are all but forgotten, or were until this...
Zell's Pinstripe Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... among baseball fans, such as then St. Louis Cardinal Enos Slaughter’s slide into and spiking of Jackie Robinson and whether it was intentional or an accident. From racial and ethnic discrimination to less than ideal traveling conditions, small salaries that required players to have jobs in the off season, and the broken marriages that resulted from careers and lives spent on the road....
