http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JackieRobinsonDay Posts tagged with 'JackieRobinsonDay' at MetaFilter. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:43:40 -0800 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:43:40 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60149/Jackie%2DRobinson%2DDay <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/jrd/index.jsp">"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."</a> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a><br><br> This Sunday April 15, 2007, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_jackie.html">breaking of baseball's color barrier</a>. For <a href="http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/cs-070407soxbits,1,6951727.story?coll=cs-home-headlines">one</a> day, <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070404&content_id=1879618&vkey=news_cin&fext=.jsp&c_id=cin">superstars</a> and <a href="http://www.metsblog.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/5/2860274.html">managers</a> <a href="http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070407.wspt-jays-number-07/GSStory/GlobeSportsBaseball/home">throughout</a> the <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070404&content_id=1879800&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb">sport</a> as well as <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070405&content_id=1880676&vkey=news_la&fext=.jsp&c_id=la"> entire</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/sports/baseball/10robinson.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin">teams</a> will be <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070405&content_id=1881193&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb">saluting his memory</a> by <a href="http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/sports/putno9.htm">wearing</a> Robinson's <a href="http://www.baseballasamerica.org/from_the_tour_06.htm">retired number 42</a>. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/specials/baseball/robinson-0401.html">Robinson</a> is <a href="http://www.medaloffreedom.com/JackieRobinson.htm">honored</a> for his <a href="http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00016431.html">tremendous</a> <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=wzNjskECZjM">leadership</a> both <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/la/history/jackie_robinson_timeline/timeline_index.jsp">on</a> and <a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/jackie-robinson/">off the field</a> <small><small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/48308/Jackie-Robinson-Civil-Rights-Advocate">previously</a>),</small></small> he is <a href="http://www.evesmag.com/robinson.htm">remembered</a> for his <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/community/bb.jsp?content=jackies_values">determination</a> in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/specials/baseball/robinson-index.html">overcoming</a> racial <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/specials/baseball/bbo-reese-robinson.html">prejudice</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/numb3r/372075024/">hatred</a>, and for his <a href="http://www.umass.edu/pubaffs/jackie/citizen.html">post-career activities as a civil rights advocate</a>. Perhaps the highest compliment is to say simply that <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4123754594960818448&q=%22jackie+robinson%22&hl=en">Jackie Robinson</a> was <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/r/robinja02.shtml">one</a> of the <a href="http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/robinson_jackie.htm">greatest players</a> to ever <a href="http://www.dugout-memories.com/goffebb6.jpg">grace</a> a <a href="http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/education/experience/thematic_units/civil_rights/dodgers.html">baseball diamond</a>, but his contribution to baseball, and to <a href="http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1984/5/1984_5_34.shtml">equality in America</a> was far greater than statistics and pennants.<br><br> "<a href="http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/sports/special/barriers/rickey.html">Mr. Rickey</a>, do you want a ballplayer who is afraid to fight back?" "I want a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back!" See <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8217115611870612113&q=%22jackie+robinson%22&hl=en">The Jackie Robinson Story</a>, starring the man himself. <small><small>(1:16:29, Google video)</small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.60149 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:43:40 -0800 America baseball civilrights JackieRobinson JackieRobinsonDay edverb