Authors: Arnold Rampersad
3.
put a real hurting
: Jack Gordon, interview.
4.
to say that Robinson
: PC, Jan. 25, 1947.
5.
I have made every
: PC, Feb. 1, 1947.
6.
I guess Mr. Rickey
: ibid.
7.
the things which are
: Mann, pp. 160–161.
8.
the
one
enemy most
: Mann, pp. 162–163.
9.
I was told that
:
I Never,
p. 68.
10.
I can’t afford to
: Roger Kahn, “The Ten Years of Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
October 1955, p. 12.
11.
I honestly wouldn’t know
: SN, April 2, 1947.
12.
but the crowd came
: SN, March 26, 1947.
13.
I want you to run
:
I Never,
p. 69.
14.
startling
: SN, March 26, 1947.
15.
The infield was made
: SN, April 2, 1947.
16.
Robinson’s movements around
: ibid.
17.
When they take their
: PC, March 29, 1947.
18.
It would be a crime
: SN, March 26, 1947.
19.
He’s a swell ball
: PC, March 1, 1947.
20.
because people might
think
: NYT, March 30, 1947.
21.
far off his usual
: SN, April 2, 1947.
22.
there is also little
: SN, March 26, 1947.
23.
did not suffer by
: SN, April 2, 1947.
24.
I wasn’t trying
: NYT, July 17, 1977.
25.
there were five of
: Kirby Higbe,
The High Hard One
(N.Y.: Viking, 1967), pp. 103–104.
26.
I don’t care if
: Harold Parrott,
The Lords of Baseball
(N.Y.: Praeger, 1976), pp. 208–209.
27.
When you’re born
:
Daily News
(Philadelphia), April 14, 1987.
28.
He really reamed me
: NYT, Dec. 10, 1981.
29.
that a little show
:
I Never,
p. 68.
30.
Recently the thought
: Dixie Walker to Branch Rickey, March 26, 1947, BRP.
31.
No player on this
: NYT, April 1, 1947.
32.
one of the greatest
: PC, March 22, 1947.
33.
a tendency to choke up
: PC, April 5, 1947.
34.
I tried not to notice
: Roy Campanella,
It’s Good to Be Alive
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1959), p. 131.
35.
the most delicate question
: NYT, April 9, 1947.
36.
detrimental to baseball
: NYT, April 10, 1947.
37.
several thousand Negroes
: NYT, April 11, 1947.
38.
an unimpeachable source
: PC, March 29, 1947.
39.
My boy, I must
: NYT, Oct. 26, 1972.
40.
Robinson, how are you
: PC, April 19, 1947.
41.
Next time I go
: ibid.
42.
He’s certain to continue
: NYT, April 12, 1947.
43.
We were scared
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
44.
I was determined
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
45.
I did a miserable
:
I Never,
p. 70.
46.
If they’re all like
: New York
Daily News,
April 17, 1947.
47.
perfect
: NYT, April 18, 1947.
48.
Robby has supreme confidence
: New York
Daily News,
April 17, 1947.
49.
The muscular Negro
: NYT, April 16, 1947.
50.
They came to see
: Red Barber,
1947
—When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball
(N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982), p. 155.
51.
a thousand people
: PC, April 19, 1947.
52.
We never thought of
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
53.
I don’t know what
: PC, April 26, 1947.
54.
Hi, Black Boy!
: ibid.
55.
He’s not a ballplayer
: New York
Daily Mirror,
April 17, 1947.
56.
I ain’t going to
: Lester Rodney to Paul Buhle and Michael Fermanowsky, transcript of interview, 1981, UCLA Oral History Program, UCLA Archives, p. 66.
57.
a swell bunch
: Marty Solow, “Meet Jackie Robinson,”
Union Voice
, April 27, 1947.
58.
Jackie is sitting
: Boston
Globe,
Jan. 24, 1962.
59.
the loneliest man
: May 10, 1947.
60.
of all the unpleasant
:
I Never,
pp. 71–72.
61.
The things the Phillies
: PC, May 3, 1947.
62.
Listen, you yellow-bellied
:
I Never,
p. 73.
63.
the only gentleman
: ibid.
64.
Chapman did more than
:
I Never,
p. 74.
65.
Photographers sprang up
: Barber, p. 162.
66.
If you do this
: New York
Herald Tribune,
May 9, 1947.
67.
We have a great
: NYT, April 29, 1947.
68.
bring the Nigger here
: Parrott, p. 193.
69.
And don’t bring your
: ibid.
70.
pointed bats at me
:
I Never,
p. 76.
71.
This is something I
: Parrott, p. 217.
72.
Having my picture taken
:
I Never,
p. 75.
73.
Chapman impressed me
: PC, May 17, 1947.
74.
scrawled and scribbled
: Parrott, p. 190.
75.
I felt they should
: Philadelphia
Inquirer,
May 10, 1947.
76.
I do not profess
: PC, June 7, 1947.
77.
the Negro first baseman
: NYT, May 13, 1947.
78.
Stick in there
: PC, May 24, 1947.
79.
Class tells
: NYT, May 18, 1947.
80.
The guys on the team
: PC, May 24, 1947.
81.
I used to go out
:
I Never,
p. 78.
82.
Find out for yourself
: Duke Snider and Bill Gilbert,
The Duke of Flatbush
(N.Y.: Zebra, 1988), p. 21.
83.
I had been
: ibid.
84.
Robinson is now paying
: PC, May 31, 1947.
85.
displayed too much enthusiasm
: ibid.
86.
fears and apprehensions
: PC, June 7, 1947.
87.
In
1947
,
Jackie
: Roger Wilkins to author, interview, May 16, 1995.
88.
But as he had
: Barber, p. 200.
89.
in dear old Brooklyn
: PC, May 31, 1947.
90.
I have learned that
: PC, June 14, 1947.
91.
Times were simpler
: Snider, p. 20.
92.
were eating at his
: Parrott, p. 199.
93.
Darling, As we fly
: JR to Rachel Robinson, n.d., RRP.
94.
he was not yet
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
95.
I’ve met most
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.
96.
The feeling in Brooklyn
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
97.
a swell bunch
: PC, June 21, 1947.
98.
definitely one
: PC, June 28, 1947.
99.
very viciously
: WP, Aug. 28, 1949.
100.
I get all kinds
: Boston
Daily Herald,
June 28, 1947.
101.
You haven’t seen Robinson
: misc. uniden. clipping, June 25, 1947, JRP.
102.
He is a grand
: PC, July 12, 1947.
103.
amazing for a rookie
: Toronto
Star,
July 7, 1947.
104.
came within
an inch
: Barber, p. 277.
105.
Hate was running high
: Barber, p. 278.
106.
Slaughter deliberately went
:
I Never,
p. 80.
107.
I know the truth
: NYT, Sept. 29, 1996.
108.
You better play your
: Roscoe McGowen, “If You Were Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
September 1947, p. 41.
109.
broke up [the] incipient
: SN, Sept. 24, 1947.
110.
Ty Cobb in Technicolor
: Christopher Jennison,
Wait ’Til Next Year: The Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants,
1947
–
1957
(N.Y.: Norton, 1974), p. 22.
111.
I have tried to
: PC, Aug. 23, 1947.
112.
The sociological experiment
: Rowan, pp. 193–194.
113.
No other ballplayer
:
I Never,
p. 81.
114.
So we’re in it
: PC, Oct. 4, 1947.
115.
I’ve played a lot
: PC, Oct. 11, 1947.
116.
It was a pleasure
: misc. clipping, Jan. 6, 1948, JRP.
117.
Many of us who
: John A. Williams to author, interview, April 17, 1997.
1.
good sport
: anon. to JR, n.d., AMP, LC.
2.
the whole nation
: C. C. Spaulding to JR, Oct. 3, 1947, AMP, LC.
3.
I was being watched
: JR, misc. fragment, ms., n.d., JRP.
4.
I’ve got to make
: ibid.
5.
should do something
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Oct. 25, 1947.
6.
why would he have
: NYAN
,
Oct. 25, 1947.
7.
Jack couldn’t sing
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
8.
a new low
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Nov. 1, 1947.
9.
a picture of dapper
: NYAN
,
Oct. 25, 1947.
10.
for his interest
: ibid.
11.
gracious, down-right big-hearted
: Red Skelton to JR, Feb. 19, 1948, JRP.
12.
Jackie took the boy’s
: misc. clipping, uniden., JRP.
13.
We’d pull off the
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
14.
the first man in
: Oakland
Tribune,
Dec. 2, 1947.
15.
a short but impressive
: PC, Jan. 3, 1948.
16.
More than SIXTY THOUSAND
: Arthur Mann,
The Jackie Robinson Story
(N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951), p. 202.
17.
We ate like pigs
:
I Never,
p. 83.
18.
There’s no question
: NYAN
,
Dec. 6, 1947.
19.
I respected and respect
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
20.
considerable vehemence
: Mann, p. 202.
21.
Mr. Rickey and I
: PC, Feb. 21, 1948.
22.
Complications set in
:
I Never,
pp. 82–83.
23.
I met all the gang
: PC, March 13, 1948.
24.
The best second baseman
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
March 13, 1948.
25.
I was sorry to see
: PC, March 20, 1948.
26.
Wherever they tell me
: PC, April 17, 1948.
27.
I’m just a player
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Dec. 6, 1947.
28.
What in the world
: PC, March 13, 1948.
29.
I think Durocher is
: New York
Daily News,
March 29, 1948.
30.
After an inexcusably
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
March 27, 1948.
31.
conscious of their color
: PC, March 13, 1948.
32.
pulled and tugged
: PC, March 20, 1948.
33.
I miss him
: PC, March 27, 1948.