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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 by rjokerlsu
Big Spring, TX
Member since Apr 2007
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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.
Posted by BenDover
Member since Jul 2010
5470 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:02 am to
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
Posted by Tiger1242
Member since Jul 2011
32281 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:03 am to
Nobody cares about #2
Posted by MasterofTigerBait
Member since May 2009
7598 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:09 am to
Cheesy as hell. I thought Ford was great though in his role.
Posted by BayouBandit24
Member since Aug 2010
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Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:23 am to
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Posted by BayouBandit24
Member since Aug 2010
16680 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:24 am to
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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 by Dylan
Bayou Barbary
Member since May 2009
3472 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 1:42 am to
Hated the movie I was expecting much more out of it.
Posted by JEAUXBLEAUX
Bayonne, NJ
Member since May 2006
55368 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 4:34 am to
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 by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161244 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 6:53 am to
When will Moses Walker get his movie?
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:14 am to
"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.
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161244 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:18 am to
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.

quote:

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 by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
43009 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:26 am to
Who was the second guy to walk on the moon?
Posted by JEAUXBLEAUX
Bayonne, NJ
Member since May 2006
55368 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 7:37 am to
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 by Tiger1242
Member since Jul 2011
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Posted on 4/23/13 at 10:57 am to
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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 by Tiger1242
Member since Jul 2011
32281 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 10:57 am to
quote:

Who was the second guy to walk on the moon?

Buzz Aldrin (sp?)
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:07 am to
quote:


Nobody thinks that


I teach high school social studies. My kids cannot name another person. Some might mention Malcolm X.
Posted by Rittdog
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed
Member since Oct 2009
9955 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:15 am to
quote:

However, I have wondered over the years, if Larry Doby does not receive enough credit?


There was actually a really good documentary on him some years ago on either HBO or Showtime.
Doby

Posted by OBUDan
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
40723 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:17 am to
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I teach high school social studies. My kids cannot name another person.


Seems like you are a shitty teacher.
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:19 am to
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Seems like you are a shitty teacher.


That's what I get as they come into my class, jackass.
Posted by Dr. 3
Member since Mar 2005
11355 posts
Posted on 4/23/13 at 11:20 am to
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Seems like you are a shitty teacher.
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