I think it was one of the greatest times ever in the world to play baseball. Television was in its infancy. Breaking the color barrier,
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson
Wait til next year.
Jackie Robinson
Fortunately for Kent, this tempest in a Petri dish has since been squashed, but it was Bradleys other comments that are echoing in Major League Baseballs executive suites. He said, Me being an African American is the most important thing to me more important than baseball, White people never want to see race with anything. But theres race involved in baseball. Thats why theres less than 9 percent African American representation in the game. ... Im one of the few African Americans that starts here.
Jackie Robinson
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
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