I idolized Jack Roosevelt Robinson

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2013)

Pee wee wrapped his arm around Jackie on or near second base, not first base as shown in the movie. Josh Gibson was the guy that deserved to be the first but he had many personal problems. Yet the movie never even mentioned his name. Branch invented the Farm System during his stint with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1930s. This too was not mentioned in the Movie. The Movie also made no mention of Jackie's brother Mac who represented us at the Hitler Olympics of 1936. In many respects he was a better athlete than Jackie.
As a diabetic Jackie was approached after he retired by Talbert the great tennis player of the 1930s to join him on a national campaign to help fight juvenile diabetes but Jackie declined the invitation.
Having said all that, it is so true that white boys growing up in Brooklyn emulated Jackie in their parents' living rooms---I know I did as my mother feared I would knock down the lamp even though I left the bat in the garage.