My heart hurts knowing Jackie was dying but he still stood strong with dignity and continued to push to further the cause of full integration of baseball
@@Inktowniconbecause integration destroyed a multi million dollar BLACK industry that was more popular than MBL. Now all the best players are black but all the OWNERS are white... 🤡
@@Inktownicony did you feel the need to comment. Literally before integration there were 100% more black business we now gotta beg the former slave master for work smh know your history N!gr
The fact that he sounds articulate? or the pitch of his voice . . . or perhaps both? Im curious as to what you're referring to. I won't be a hypocrite and 'assume' that the surprise is that he sounds as if he could be white, if you couldn't see it with your own eyes. One example is that one shouldn't ever judge a person by appearance, but rather what is on the inside which is truly the most significant and meaningful.
Gil Hodges first baseman for the Dodgers boys of summer in the fifties died earlier in 1972 of a heart attack. He finally made the HOF this year, 2022 after all these years. I miss those Boys of Summer, I believe the only one that is left from the Boys of Summer team of the 1950's is Anderson, Indiana native and Dodger pitch Carl Erskine. I still remember the days at Ebbett's Field when Baseball was just a great sport to follow
Jackie Robinson is one of my greatest American heroes. I had to stop watching when they announced his name and got some mild applause, and did I hear booing. Sad, this was 1972.
His diabetes was affecting him in the early 1950s. They just didn’t have the medications to stop it from ravaging his body. he had lost sight in one eye and could hardly see out the other
Jackie retired after the 1956 season after he got a job with Chock Full O'Nuts coffee company, rather than accepting a trade with the hated crosstown rivals, the New York Giants, although it would have been nice to see Jackie as a teammate of Willie Mays.
Hard to believe in less than than 2 weeks he was gone. Diabetes really bit him hard. He probably would have made it longer if modern medicine especially diabetes management was around.
hmmmmmmmmmmmm 🤔 seems Jackie Robinson hit a home run Every Time he show his self on the Base Ball field ⚾. Standing against injustice and racial Behavior 🙏 RIP 🌹
@@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879 First, there is no evidence whatsoever that heavy coffee drinking causes diabetes, which was what he died from. Second, just because he worked as an executive for the company meant that he had no obligation to drink their coffee. You'e talking total bullshit. Don't write nonsense posts on the internet. Instead, find something more constructive to do.
