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Has anyone else seen 42 yet, your thoughts & question on Larry Doby
Posted on 4/23/13 at 12:47 am
Posted on 4/23/13 at 12:47 am
I saw it last week and it was very good, with Harrison Ford playing the Branch Rickey role very well.
However, I have wondered over the years, if Larry Doby does not receive enough credit? As many of you know, he was the first black player signed by an American League team just two years after Robinson signed with the Dodgers. Doby had a very good career with the Cleveland Indians, was named to the Hall of Fame & experienced hardships just as Robinson did. Not trying to minimize in any way Robinson's impact, but I have thought all along that Doby does not receive enough credit for what he had to tolerate when he made his Cleveland debut in 1947.
However, I have wondered over the years, if Larry Doby does not receive enough credit? As many of you know, he was the first black player signed by an American League team just two years after Robinson signed with the Dodgers. Doby had a very good career with the Cleveland Indians, was named to the Hall of Fame & experienced hardships just as Robinson did. Not trying to minimize in any way Robinson's impact, but I have thought all along that Doby does not receive enough credit for what he had to tolerate when he made his Cleveland debut in 1947.
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Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:02 am to rjokerlsu
It was a really cheesy movie IMO. I actually thought it'd be better than it was. Great Gatsby is gonna be a badass movie though.
Yes, I just hijacked the shite outta your thread
Yes, I just hijacked the shite outta your thread
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:03 am to rjokerlsu
Nobody cares about #2
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:09 am to BenDover
Cheesy as hell. I thought Ford was great though in his role.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:23 am to rjokerlsu
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Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:24 am to rjokerlsu
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Harrison Ford playing the Branch Rickey role very well.
I thought he was awful, my least favorite part of the movie. His voice and accent was terrible imo. Maybe im just a douche
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:42 am to BayouBandit24
Hated the movie I was expecting much more out of it.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:34 am to Dylan
I really liked it. But that was not even close to looking like Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. The doctor from scrubs who played Red Barber actually looked like him and had the proper intonation. Elliot Stabler as Leo Durocher. Guy who played Jackie and the writer were excellent.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 6:53 am to rjokerlsu
When will Moses Walker get his movie?
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:14 am to tduecen
"The people" and high school history textbooks need their icons and symbols. They need history they can digest. The same way Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were the only people who protested for their civil rights.
If Larry Doby wanted to be a symbol, he should have been first, or at the very least not played in Cleveland.
If Larry Doby wanted to be a symbol, he should have been first, or at the very least not played in Cleveland.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:18 am to lsutigers1992
Technically speaking Robinson was not first either, baseball was actually integrated in 1870's but because some individuals had issues with it, they arranged an agreement that no team would sign a black ball player.
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in 1878 and again in 1884 – African American players played professional baseball
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Still after 1871, formal bans existed only in minor league baseball. In 1884, in response to the Toledo Blue Stockings of the American Association having Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black man to play major league baseball
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:26 am to rjokerlsu
Who was the second guy to walk on the moon?
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:37 am to AUCE05
By the way Larry Doby was well respected and honored in his hometown of Paterson, NJ. But very few around the country speak of him often, you are right.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 10:57 am to lsutigers1992
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The same way Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King were the only people who protested for their civil rights
Nobody thinks that
Posted on 4/23/13 at 10:57 am to AUCE05
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Who was the second guy to walk on the moon?
Buzz Aldrin (sp?)
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:07 am to Tiger1242
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Nobody thinks that
I teach high school social studies. My kids cannot name another person. Some might mention Malcolm X.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:17 am to lsutigers1992
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I teach high school social studies. My kids cannot name another person.
Seems like you are a shitty teacher.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:19 am to OBUDan
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Seems like you are a shitty teacher.
That's what I get as they come into my class, jackass.
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:20 am to OBUDan
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Seems like you are a shitty teacher.
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