Robinson, Jackie
Jackie Robinson Museum Focuses on Civils Rights and Baseball
Jackie Robinson’s family home in Stamford, Conn., had a den featuring trophies, artifacts and a big scrapbook commemorating his many achievements. David Robinson, his son, fondly recalled in an interview how one wall held photos and plaques depicting his father’s success in sports. Another wall — with a collection twice as big — highlighted his […]
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Baseball Hall of Famers Compete Over Statues
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The unofficial greeters at the Hall of Fame stand together, in bronze, by the ticket booths in the museum lobby. They are multicultural monuments to strength, sacrifice and service: Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. “Those three represented so much more than what they did on the field,” said Josh Rawitch, […]
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Tom Seaver’s Statue Stands 10 Feet Tall. Just Like Seaver.
A statue of Tom Seaver finally made its debut at Citi Field on Friday, hours before the Mets’ 2022 home opener and years after it, arguably, might have been built. The statue depicts Seaver — who more than 50 years ago transformed the Mets from a laughingstock into world champions — in his famous drop-and-drive […]
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Baseball Hall of Fame Will Create New Exhibit on Race
Such accounting will be essential to the new exhibit, and with more than 150 years of history to review it is a massive undertaking. Glanville said he preferred the term exploratory to advisory, because there is so much still to learn about the Black experience in baseball, so much that continues to evolve. “There’s still […]
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A Marker Honoring Jackie Robinson Was Defaced. M.L.B. Helped Replace It.
Later, he added: “The association of guns and violence against African Americans in this country is one of the things that’s been going on for a long time. And so the fact that they shot these markers using guns was a signal that was being sent in some way.” (The Grady County Sheriff’s Office didn’t […]
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