PORTLAND, Ore., July 30 (UPI) — “42,” the Jackie Robinson bio-picture starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, is the No. 1 movie-on-demand in the United States, Rentrak announced. …read more
Baseball picture '42' tops movies-on-demand chart
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'42' tops DVD and Blu-ray sales chart
LOS ANGELES, July 29 (UPI) — “42,” the Jackie Robinson bio-picture starring Chadwick Boseman and Harrison Ford, is the top-selling DVD in the United States, Rentrak announced Monday. …read more
War Buddy Heads to N. Korea to Find Fallen Pilot
By John Johnson
Ever heard of Ensign Jesse Brown? Probably not, and that’s too bad, because “he’s a Jackie Robinson in many ways,” says his old war buddy Thomas Hudner. “He’s a historic figure, yet he’s lying on a Korean mountainside.” The AP has the remarkable story: Robinson became the Navy’s first black… …read more
MLB announces Breaking Barriers essay winners
By Spencer Fordin The Breaking Barriers program, initiated in 1997, has sought to educate people while keeping the memory of Jackie Robinson alive. The 2013 Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life essay contest drew a record 18,700 submissions, and Major League Baseball announced the winners Thursday.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130418&content_id=45152228&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
"42" Portrays Jackie Robinson as a Master Negotiator
The new movie 42, mainly about baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his rookie year playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, is, in equal parts, a paean to his consummate athletic talent and a bearing witness to his resilience as the first African-American player in big league baseball. Most people who are familiar with the legend know about his skills at bat and stealing bases. Many who aren’t of a certain age don’t know how dealing with racism, even in the sport, was a huge part of his story.
From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimcamp/2013/04/18/42-portrays-jackie-robinson-as-a-master-negotiator/
"42" and the Intangible Impact of Sports
Baseball is life, or so the saying goes. The release of “42” brings back to light a story that, among its many angles and nuances, turns that saying around — life is baseball. Sports not only mirrors life but also acts as a vehicle to influence and change it. Measured solely by revenues, sports rates a relatively minor player as industries go. Summed together, professional football, baseball, basketball, hockey and auto racing generate only about $30 billion per year. Even with the major football and basketball revenue producers among college teams lumped in, the total is well under $50 billion. That’s nowhere near the $100 billion-plus figures for the heavyweights among individual companies, much less entire industries. Yet, for enormous sales figures and cult-like following surrounding a company like , its ongoing buzz does not come close to sports. Steve Job and Bill Gates have enjoyed about as much celebrity as any corporate figures, but the events involving Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Brooklyn Dodgers took place over 75 years ago and continue to inspire. Babe Ruth’s exploits in Major League Baseball will soon be 100 years old, but his name is still widely known. After 100 years, I would expect very little public awareness of names like Jobs or Gates, unless it happens through the naming of some institution. A reply might be, the Jackie Robinson episode lives on because it centers on an important period of American history — breaking down racial barriers. Yes, but among all the individual stories that paralleled that of Robinson, it’s his that emerged into and has survived in the common public consciousness. This kind of influence, however, goes beyond Robinson and race. Sports is one of the few areas where revenues so radically understate the social impact and awareness of the business. The very existence of substantial merchandising revenues for sports teams is a tell-tale indicator of this non-monetary interest. ExxonMobil may generate $400 billion in revenue but hardly anyone walks around wearing caps, jackets, and shirts displaying their attachment as fans do for the Yankees, the Cowboys, the Crimson Tide, or Dale Jr. In this respect, sports fits with movies, vacations, special romantic moments, and a few other activities where individuals relive, retell, and rehash memorable events over and over, making the initial “consumption value” very durable. The involvement of thousands of other people in the initial enjoyment offers a relatively unique opportunity for social networking that long preceded the advent of the internet. It’s an interesting exercise to try to add up the non-revenue value of sports to fans. The amount of time alone, whether at reliving the game in the break room or at home, reading newspapers, blogs, or other sources is not trivial. Further, the time spent on fantasy sports ultimately derives its value from the sports themselves. With even modest estimates the number of people involved in these activities along with the time spent and at average wage rates, it’s easy to double the revenue
From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briangoff/2013/04/17/42-and-the-intangible-impact-of-sports/
O's pull out tight victory after celebrating Jackie
By Brittany Ghiroli Jake Arrieta struck out seven, Matt Wieters hit a solo homer and eight Orioles either drove in a run or reached base in a 5-4 victory as they celebrated Jackie Robinson in Baltimore on Tuesday.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_04_16_tbamlb_balmlb_1&mode=recap_home&c_id=bal
Crawford told to ditch mismatched spikes
By Mark Saxon Carl Crawford got a lot of supportive texts and phone calls after he wore mismatched Jackie Robinson commemorative cleats in Monday night’s game, but Major League Baseball was not among the well-wishers.
Crawford told not to wear off-colored cleats
By Mark Saxon Carl Crawford got a lot of supportive texts and phone calls after he wore mismatched Jackie Robinson commemorative cleats in Monday night’s game, but Major League Baseball was not among the well-wishers.
Kemp to donate $10K via Robinson Foundation
By Barry M. Bloom Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp is planning on turning his love and respect for Jackie Robinson into a $10,000 college scholarship to a minority student in need, designated by the foundation established in the Hall of Famer’s name.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130416&content_id=44900952&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Wearing No. 42 with pride, MLB honors Jackie
By AJ Cassavell Even without the matching No. 42 jerseys worn throughout baseball and without Monday’s pregame festivities across the country, Jackie Robinson‘s historic legacy would have remained apparent around the baseball world. One needs to look only at the on-field diversity to see it clearly.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130413&content_id=44707692&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Magic grateful for many doors Jackie opened
By Barry M. Bloom For the 66th anniversary of the day Jackie Robinson shattered the color barrier as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Major League Baseball came full circle at Dodger Stadium. Robinson was the first African-American player of the 20th century to play in the Majors, and the former Lakers great is the first high-level African-American owner.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130416&content_id=44897352&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Cards help pay tribute to Jackie with No. 42
By Jenifer Langosch As has become a yearly tribute to baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, all players and uniformed staff donned uniform No. 42 on Monday, the 66th anniversary of Robinson breaking the sport’s color barrier by making his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Twins hold Jackie Robinson Day pregame celebrations
By Rhett Bollinger The Twins celebrated the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking Major League Baseball‘s color barrier with a ceremony before Monday’s game against the Angels.
The Left Would Hate Jackie Robinson Today…
Democrats don’t ever tell the truth about their shared history with African Americans. They will never admit that the Confederacy was formed by Democrats intent on keeping their ancestors locked on plantations as slaves. They will never admit that the Klu Klux Klan was formed and populated by Democrats who had been members of the Confederate Army. They have lied about which Party was home to some of the worst bigots in American history.
Black conservative writer K. Carl Smith summed these lies up with: “When I grew up in Alabama, I thought George Wallace was a Republican. I thought Bull Connor was a Republican. I believed the people that bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., were part of the Republican Party….. all of the things I believed to be true I found it was a lie.”
Last Friday, the new movie “42” referring to Jackie Robinson’s uniform number was released. It is apparently a stirring tale of how a black American named Jack Roosevelt Robinson, who had the skill and courage necessary to pull it off, broke the color barrier and played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
What is certain is that the Hollywood version of the Jackie Robinson story will not tell us about his life as a Republican activist after baseball. It will not touch on the strongly-held Republican beliefs of Branch Rickey, the man who signed Robinson to play baseball for the Dodgers, ironically played by leading Hollywood liberal Harrison Ford. Nor will it mention that it was not until in 1959, twelve years after Robinson was first at bat, that Boston (a bastion of phony liberalism) became the very last city to put a black man (Pumpsie Green) on its baseball field.
Jackie Robinson’s post-baseball years are just another story about black people the Democrats and their lap dog media ignore because it doesn’t fit the tapestry of lies they need their plantation hands to hear and believe.
The Democrats want the “truth” to be: “Yes Robinson had these wired un-politically correct conservative thoughts, but in 1960 when he saw Richard Nixon refuse to campaign in Harlem he was cleansed of them.” Nevertheless, Robinson’s autobiography strongly suggests otherwise. He was impressed with the enormous sums of money that white Republican Nelson Rockefeller’s family had given to support black colleges (Spellman College, which is today a leading anti-Republican nest, was founded by John D. Rockefeller and named for his mother.) Robinson liked a certain brand of Republicanism. He was a Rockefeller Republican, but a Republican nonetheless.
In order to campaign for Nelson Rockefeller in 1964, Robinson gave up a well- paying, very secure job as a spokesman for Chock Full O’Nuts coffee company. Yet who could deny that if Jackie Robinson was alive today he would be mocked and reviled by the creeps at MSNBC because his political beliefs would not fit the plantation field-hand mentality they demand from blacks? Number 42 would be just another Uncle Tom to them.
To read more about the Democrats’ lies to Blacks
From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/the-left-would-hate-jackie-robinson-today/
Balcom humbled to run in Jackie's footsteps
By Doug Miller Jasha Balcom knew most of the Jackie Robinson story because his father had told him. He knew that Robinson had broken baseball’s color barrier. He knew that Robinson had endured horrific racism and had helped pioneer the American Civil Rights Movement. He was well aware that Robinson was a Rookie of the Year, a Most Valuable Player and a Hall of Famer. And that was all before Balcom learned a lot more by becoming Jackie Robinson.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130413&content_id=44679256&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Jackie's selflessness had profound impact on America
By Richard Justice As is chronicled in the film “42,” Jackie Robinson was forced to endure many injustices in order to play in the big leagues, and his selflessness has had an incalculable impact on the United States.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130413&content_id=44665834&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
The Week Ahead: Jackie's legacy takes center stage
By Doug Miller Monday is April 15, which means we have to pay our taxes but we also have to pay our respects to the life, legacy, memory and impact that Jackie Robinson had on baseball and, more importantly, on society.
From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130415&content_id=44830218&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
'42' opens at No. 1 in U.S.
LOS ANGELES, April 14 (UPI) — “42,” based on the life of baseball great Jackie Robinson, was No. 1 at the U.S. box office this weekend, opening to an estimated gross of $27.2 million.
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Weekend Box Office: '42' Sets Record, 'Scary Movie 5' Bombs, 'Oblivion' launches overseas.
By Scott Mendelson, Contributor
Here’s an odd statistic: Despite baseball being theoretically America’s national past time and being the subject of any number of feature films over the decades, not a single baseball-themed film has ever opened at over $20 million. Not until today that is, when the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 (review HERE) opened with a surprisingly robust $27.3 million. Not only is that the biggest baseball opening weekend on record, it’s the biggest baseball-themed opening weekend even when adjusted for inflation (in 2013 dollars, A League of Their Own has a debut of $26.6 million). This is good news for the somewhat beleaguered Warner Bros, which has seen the disappointing returns for Bullet to the Head, Beautiful Creatures, and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (all well under $25 million in domestic totals). The film scored a rock-solid 3.0x weekend multiplier and a somewhat rare A+ score from the audience polling service CinemaScore. The film played 52% male and 83% 25-and-older. So yeah, the $38 million production is likely going to have long legs at least for the month of April with a trip over the $100 million mark a genuine possibility.