Jackie Robinson (93 page)

50.
I am counting on
: PC, Dec. 9, 1950.

51.
It certainly did not
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

52.
That dieting business
: PC, March 10, 1951.

53.
I’m going to open
: PC, Feb. 10, 1951.

54.
We have a different
: SN, March 28, 1951.

55.
Jackie would
never
: Carl Erskine to author, interview, Feb. 10, 1997.

56.
I like aggressive play
: PC, April 7, 1951.

57.
might be a little
: PC, April 21, 1951.

58.
Anything I do
: SN, May 2, 1951.

59.
I’m not going to be
: SN, May 23, 1951.

60.
umpire-baiting
: SN, May 2, 1951.

61.
Leo, I can smell
: Prince, p. 49.

62.
“amazed” by his catlike
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
March 13, 1948.

63.
My dick to you
: Roger Kahn,
The Boys of Summer
(N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1972), p. 97.

64.
You’ve got a swelled
: PC, June 13, 1950.

65.
Did you notice
: SN, Sept. 19, 1951.

66.
I just don’t like
: ibid.

67.
You’ve got a nerve
: SN, May 9, 1951.

68.
it’s a long season
: ibid.

69.
tired … popping off
: ibid.

70.
I have no reason
: ibid.

71.
on the carpet
: ibid.

72.
Robinson always has been
: SN, May 16, 1951.

73.
many fans of both races
: PC, May 5, 1951.

74.
Robinson will read this
: PC, May 19, 1951.

75.
I think we will
: SN, May 30, 1951.

76.
If I hadn’t started
: SN, June 6, 1951.

77.
in a way that
: SN, June 13, 1951.

78.
What good is that
: SN, Sept. 26, 1951.

79.
I’m not saying anything
: SN, Oct. 10, 1951.

80.
The ball is a blur
: NYT, Oct. 25, 1972.

81.
one of the greatest
: SN, Jan. 2, 1952.

82.
stretched at full length
: NYT, Oct. 25, 1972.

83.
There’s no stopping us
: PC, Oct. 6, 1951.

84.
Well, we let
: Robert Campbell, interview, UCLA Archives.

85.
Roll out the barrels
: SN, Oct. 10, 1951.

86.
We think he’s
: SN, Oct. 17, 1951.

87.
He deserves every
honor
: SN, Nov. 7, 1951.

88.
It was not only
: PC, June 7, 1952.

89.
Fans used to travel
: PC, Nov. 22, 1952.

90.
These trips are really
: SN, Nov. 21, 1951.

91.
It’s Robinson they come
: PC, Dec. 8, 1951.

92.
the league’s busiest
: SN, Feb. 20, 1952.

93.
I had a chip
: PC, Feb. 23, 1952.

94.
unique in the field
: “News from NBC” (press release), Feb. 4, 1952; JRP.

95.
a decent home
: NYP, Sept. 23, 1959.

96.
I think every player
: SN, Feb. 20, 1952.

97.
perfectly satisfied
: PC, Jan. 19, 1952.

98.
Can you fight?
: Joe Black to Spike Lee, interview, Oct. 27, 1994.

99.
I don’t mind
: SN, April 16, 1952.

100.
a greater offender
: PC, May 24, 1952.

101.
The National League is
: Milton Gross, “Why They Boo Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
Feb. 1953, p. 96.

102.
I know it’s wrong
: PC, July 26, 1952.

103.
too much fuss over
: PC, June 21, 1952.

104.
I decided that
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

105.
I think I’m going
: Joe Black to Spike Lee, interview.

106.
They scared him
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

107.
Before he left
: PC, Aug. 2, 1952.

108.
Don’t you worry
: PC, Sept. 6, 1952.

109.
What he said
: Gross, p. 96.

110.
Before I’ll pay that
: ibid.

111.
I never thought
: ibid.

112.
The main thing
: PC, Oct. 4, 1952.

113.
I couldn’t argue
: PC, Oct. 11, 1952.

114.
I certainly might
: PC, Sept. 27, 1952.

115.
It made me stop
: SN, Nov. 21, 1951.

1.
I pointed out
: Martin Stone, interview.

2.
After the war
: Jack Gordon, interview.

3.
Whatever his deal was
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

4.
Jack was an “I …”
: Evelyn Cunningham, interview, June 19, 1995.

5.
He certainly was
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

6.
I’m no longer
: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch,
April 8, 1953.

7.
fine sportsmen and wonderful
: PC, Dec. 27, 1952.

8.
who can play good
: ibid.

9.
everyone should be
: ibid.

10.
I merely said
: ibid.

11.
What do you think
: Milton Gross, “Why They Boo Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
Feb. 1953, p. 95.

12.
Do they think
: Gross, p. 97.

13.
maybe it’s because
: ibid.

14.
The very violence
: ibid.

15.
I’ve always been treated
: PC, Jan. 24, 1953.

16.
I hit a couple
: PC, March 14, 1953.

17.
I don’t see any
: PC, Jan. 24, 1953.

18.
That ain’t a third
: Mike Shatzkin, ed.,
The Ballplayers: Baseball’s Ultimate Biographical Reference
(New York: William Morrow, 1990), p. 229.

19.
Trouble on the Dodgers
: NYP, March 23, 1953.

20.
I know Cox is
: PC, March 28, 1953.

21.
There isn’t a guy
: PC, June 20, 1953.

22.
You couldn’t dream up
: PC, March 28, 1953.

23.
Our outfield wasn’t going
: PC, June 6, 1953.

24.
How do you vote
: NYT, July 3, 1953.

25.
get up there
: PC, July 25, 1953.

26.
black nigger bastard
: PC, Aug. 15, 1953.

27.
Kill him, Carl
: Carl E. Prince,
Brooklyn’s Dodgers
(N.Y.: Oxford, 1996), p. 45.

28.
another two or three
: PC, Aug. 15, 1953.

29.
He still compensates
: Newark (N.J.)
Evening News,
July 16, 1953.

30.
serenely dependable
: NYP, Sept. 7, 1953.

31.
If we don’t win
: PC, Sept. 26, 1953.

32.
in which the juvenile
: ibid.

33.
the grapevine claims that
: PC, Jan. 23, 1954.

34.
If I am traded
: PC, Nov. 28, 1953.

35.
I had nothing
: PC, Nov. 7, 1953.

36.
may have been wrong
: PC, Dec. 5, 1953.

37.
one of the great
: JR to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nov. 27, 1953, JRP.

38.
To think the President
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.

39.
great privilege
: JR to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nov. 27, 1953.

40.
Education must begin
: JR, misc. speeches, n.d., JRP.

41.
Brotherhood is a big
: JR, “The Big Game (An Editorial),”
Read,
March 1, 1956, p. 2.

42.
dedication to good human
: Russell L. Bradley to NBC, Feb. 9, 1954, JRP.

43.
I never witnessed
: Hastings Harrison to NBC, Feb. 18, 1954, JRP.

44.
modesty and deep sincerity
: William Lindsay Young to NBC, Feb. 16, 1954, JRP.

45.
Jackie isn’t just
: misc. clipping, n.d. (1953), JRP.

46.
that there is no
: JR to Ernest de la Ossa, NBC, Feb. 4, 1954, JRP.

47.
He had a way
: Anaheim (Cal.)
Bulletin,
Feb. 24, 1972.

48.
I was pretty angry
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

49.
a fine group of men
: JR, “The Branch Rickey They Don’t Write About,”
Our Sports,
July 1953, p. 63.

50.
actions, his attitude
: Howard F. Klein to Walter O’Malley, Nov. 11,
1953, JRP.

51.
over the years Jackie
: Walter O’Malley to Howard F. Klein, Nov. 17, 1953, JRP.

52.
It was a dump
: PC, May 8, 1954.

53.
I remember Jack sighing
: Martin Stone, interview.

54.
Walter Winchell had arranged
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

55.
his tremendous contribution
: Daytona Beach (Fla.)
Evening News,
March 17, 1954.

56.
one of the biggest
: JR to Richard V. Moore, March 18, 1954, JRP.

57.
Perhaps the most thrilling
: JR to Ralph Bunche, March 18, 1954, JRP.

58.
I’m not going to
: PC, May 8, 1954.

59.
I want it understood
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.

60.
I lost my head
: PC, Jan. 22, 1955.

61.
He ain’t what he
: NYP, April 19, 1954.

62.
Can I get a walk
: JR, “Now I Know Why They Boo Me,”
Look,
Jan. 25, 1955, p. 24.

63.
the most savagely booed
: cited in PC, Nov. 6, 1954.

64.
an agitator
: JR, “Now I Know Why They Boo Me,” p. 24.

65.
If that’s a record
: PC, Jan. 22, 1955.

66.
Out there alone
: JR, “Now I Know Why They Boo Me,” p. 23.

67.
standing out there
:
I Never,
p. 130.

68.
Hey Jackie, I’m Ronnie
: Chicago
Sun-Times,
April 5, 1987.

69.
I learned a long
: JR to Ron Rabinovitz, n.d., in Minneapolis
Star and Tribune,
April 12, 1987.

70.
The main thing
: Chicago
Sun-Times,
April 5, 1987.

71.
I learned from Jackie
: Minneapolis
Star Tribune,
April 12, 1987.

72.
I hope my bringing
: Roger Kahn, “The Ten Years of Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
Oct. 1955, p. 13.

73.
If you can’t write
: ibid.

74.
Jack would have been
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

75.
Most of the black people
: ibid.

76.
Jackie denies
: PC, Jan. 22, 1955.

77.
Overall it was
: Allan Roth, “1954 Brooklyn Dodgers: Complete Statistical Data [Jackie Robinson],” Los Angeles Dodgers Archives.

78.
I would trade him
: Andy A. High, note, n.d., in Roth, “1954 Brooklyn Dodgers,” L.A. Dodgers Archives.

79.
How can I think
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.

80.
is said to be
: PC, Sept. 18, 1954.

81.
It is tragic
: PC, Oct. 16, 1954.

82.
Hot or cold
: PC, Oct. 16, 1954.

83.
I want to try
: New York
Daily News,
Nov. 21, 1954.

84.
I worry about myself
: PC, Feb. 26, 1955.

85.
You really are
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

86.
one who has himself
: John D. Rockefeller to JR, Nov. 3, 1954, JRP.

87.
Jack’s reaction was horror
: Rachel Robinson, interview.