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The breaking of Organized Baseball's color line was imminent, and the excitement was building around Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Three weekend pre-Opening Day exhibition games against the Yankees at Ebbets Field drew crowds of 12,802. The 33,187 turnout for the Sunday finale was the \"biggest crowd ever to witness an exhibition game in Brooklyn.\" It was the day of Jackie Robinson's historic debut but the date was April 18, 1946, and the color line in Organized Baseball was breached not in Brooklyn but across the Hudson River in Jersey City with Robinson wearing the gray flannels of the Montreal Royals, the Dodgers' Triple-A affiliate. One year later, with Robinson poised to break the color line in Major League Baseball as a Brooklyn Dodger, a similarly large crowd was expected to witness the Dodgers' home opener on April 15. There were good reasons to think so.

Jackie Robinson's story symbolizes the pain and resilience of America. Can the reality outlast the myth?

No matter how tempted I'd been to ask David to send it to me, that piece remained a mystery to me until I submitted my thoughts on Kinsella's book. Speaking of Jackie Robinson, previous contributor Peter Dreier returns to the journal with his examination of the complex (and often misunderstood) relationship between the Dodgers infielder and athlete-actor-activist Paul Robeson. [...]in an interesting combination of history, biography, and good, old fashioned detective work, Rhett Grametbauer introduces you to a baseball player from the World War II era, one not named Feller, DiMaggio, or Williams. Sam Zygner and Emalee Nelson each provide a look back at baseball history with their articles about the 1939 Sanford Lookouts and the Mexican American leagues in the Midwest in the years preceding World War II. [...]Mark Pelesh examines the similarities and differences of baseball's umpires and courtroom judges in a thoughtful examination of both occupations.

Stolzenberg talks about how the 1962 Mets mended the broken heart of a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Pressures were placed on Major League Baseball (MLB) to expand the number of teams and restore National League (NL) baseball to New York. The growing pressures resulted in the birth of the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, which, after many fan suggestions, took on the name of \"the Mets.\" At the end of the 1957 season, the Brooklyn Dodgers announced that they were moving to Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles. The fans in Brooklyn were devastated, and it took a long time for many to recover. The 1962 Mets was a unique team, and going to the Polo Grounds was a unique experience. The 1962 Mets team filled a void in his heart as well as the hearts of hundreds of thousands of NL fans who lived in the New York metropolitan area.

A frame analysis was conducted of coverage by sportswriters of the decision in December 2020 by Major League Baseball to formally recognize seven Negro Leagues and incorporate their statistics into the sport's official record and the decision by Baseball-Reference to make Negro League statistics available to its readers. The analysis ends with the announcement in May 2024 that the statistics of 2,300 players had successfully been incorporated. Analysis revealed and affirmed seven frames: advocacy, affirmation, amends, concern, gateway, leaderboard , and romance . Framing by journalists of the inclusion of Negro League statistics establishes the conditions for the erasure of their history and the damaging racism visited upon them by Major League Baseball by creating tension between those who favor statistical debate and those who wish to remind us of what has come before. Baked into the coverage are the seeds of persuasion for the audience to shift their means of perception of the leagues and its players \"from the ear to the eye\" (Postman, 1985, p. 12). Frames affirm that advocacy is less important; the focus now is on a sustained and uphill effort to complete the record. The recent frustration of advocates has been with the delay in completing the task so that the Negro Leagues can earn the highest form of legitimacy—that bestowed by Major League Baseball. A full resolution of tension would enable MLB to further submerge its racist past and entrench the idea that the game has entered a postracial stage.

Jackie Robinson is standing on the field at Dodger Stadium, near the stands on the third-base side of home plate. It is a soft June afternoon, and though he moves slowly and needs someone to guide him, he is chatting with a few people and seems to be enjoying himself. As Rapoport makes his way over to him, the buzz of ballplayers gathered around the batting cage melds amiably with the activity of the organist up on the mezzanine playing show tunes and workers setting up microphones for the ceremonies at which his number will be retired. He almost reached him--he is hoping to thank him again for the time he gave him a few days earlier--when suddenly a shout comes from the stands behind him. He looks in the direction of the noise and see a middle-aged man standing in the third or fourth row holding a baseball.

The Burden of Over-representation artfully explores three curious racial moments in sport: Jackie Robinson's expletive at a Dodgers spring training game; the transformation of a formality into an event at the end of the 1995 rugby World Cup in South Africa; and a spectral moment at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The story of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball is well-known, but there were other instances of racial integration in baseball that often go unnoticed. One such example occurred in Suffolk County, Long Island, in the mid-twentieth century. Suffolk County had a predominantly white population and a history of racial segregation. However, it also had a strong baseball community, with connections to black baseball teams like the Cuban Giants and the Philadelphia Stars. One significant moment was when the Brookhaven Town Highway Nine, an all-white team, recruited Ralph \"Sammy\" Bunn, a talented black pitcher. Bunn's addition to the team marked the first known instance of an African American playing on a white Suffolk County baseball team. Although not as well-known as Jackie Robinson, Bunn's story is an important part of Suffolk County's baseball history and the broader narrative of racial integration in America's pastime.

Contemporary baseball has fewer opportunities for Blacks off the field than there were at any point on the Negro leagues' topsy- turvy timeline, and the thoroughly historic segregated state of baseball is a significant reason. Yes, Black baseball history still matters. As a result of segregation, as a measure of the high cost of greater access, and as a reminder of how far Major League Baseball has yet to come in respect to race, Black baseball history matters. MLB should put that in sans serif. As a pantheon of heroes for the youth of the Black communities of the first half of the last century and well into the sixties, and as they recapture that history still today, Black baseball matters. And for men like Butch Haynes, James \"Punkin\" Woodruff, Arthur Montgomery, Greg and Johnny Tutt, and their families, of course Black baseball history will always matter.

Speaks to nurse practitioner Jackie Robinson who is a voice for staff members of SCENZ (Support Consultation for End of Life in NZ)) who are involved in the recently passed End of Life Care Act. Contends that nurses often have a more profound understanding of people's lives and needs and are singularly placed to support the assisted dying process. Asserts that the role of nurse practitioners has been overlooked in the legislation, though it has been amended to include them as health practitioners who can administer life-ending medication. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.