Authors: Arnold Rampersad
34.
Sure we were scared
: PC, April 10, 1948.
35.
I’m in good shape
: ibid.
36.
click like a five
: PC, April 17, 1948.
37.
the jam-packed room
: ibid.
38.
We like it
: misc. uniden. clipping, n.d., JRP.
39.
Oh, isn’t that nice
: Sarah [Satlow] Cymrot to author, interview, June 14, 1995.
40.
our ambassador
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
41.
We didn’t know what
: Sarah Cymrot, interview.
42.
There was a lot
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
43.
They evidently have
: JR to Rachel Robinson, n.d., RRP.
44.
she rose and in
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Nov. 15, 1947.
45.
the one person
: ibid.
46.
I can truly say
: Madison (N.J.)
Eagle,
Dec. 30, 1948.
47.
I hated it
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
48.
I want you to love
: anon. to JR, Oct. 6, 1947, AMP, LC.
49.
When I married
: JR to anon., n.d., AMP, LC.
50.
but they are meant
: JR to Rachel Robinson, n.d., RRP.
51.
When he’d be on
: Joe Black to Spike Lee, interview, Oct. 27, 1994.
52.
increased my love
: JR to Rachel Robinson, n.d., RRP.
53.
Darling, if only
: JR to Rachel Robinson, n.d., RRP.
54.
We think we have
: PC, April 17, 1948.
55.
waddled
: Mann, p. 205.
56.
He fought against tears
: Mann, p. 206.
57.
a good manager
: PC, May 15, 1948.
58.
I think I’m ready
: PC, May 22, 1948.
59.
the dashing, daring base
: PC, June 5, 1948.
60.
He has been overweight
: New York
Daily Mirror,
May 26, 1948.
61.
I’m not
worried about
: PC, June 5, 1948.
62.
the first time
: NYT, June 25, 1948.
63.
a human dynamo
: PC, July 24, 1948.
64.
What the black man
: Harold Parrott,
The Lords of Baseball
(N.Y.: Praeger, 1976), p. 204.
65.
But deep in my
: Carl Rowan,
Wait Till Next Year
(N.Y.: Random House, 1960), pp. 198–199.
66.
was only fair
: Allan Roth, “1948 Brooklyn Dodgers: Complete Statistical Data, Team and Individual Batting and Pitching Record, Individual Player Analysis [Jackie Robinson],” Los Angeles Dodgers Archives.
67.
Yes sir, when a Negro
: PC, Aug. 14, 1948.
68.
Jackie came rushing out
: PC, Sept. 4, 1948.
69.
all by himself
: PC, June 5, 1948.
70.
I certainly want
: PC, June 12, 1948.
71.
can’t carry Doby’s glove
: PC, Nov. 13, 1948.
72.
utterly ridiculous
: ibid.
73.
Both Roy and I
:
The New Sign
(Harlem Branch YMCA), Sept. 18, 1948, p. 1.
74.
We are very much
: PC, March 5, 1949.
75.
a big thrill
: PC, Oct. 9, 1948.
76.
By his gentlemanly conduct
: PC, July 3, 1948.
77.
They are the kind
: WP, Aug. 30, 1949.
78.
Mr. Rickey may have
: PC, Oct. 22, 1949.
79.
leather-lunged
: PC, March 19, 1949.
80.
They better be rough
: New York
Sun,
March 6, 1949.
81.
This, it seems
: PC, March 19, 1949.
82.
My family named me
: JR,
Jackie Robinson: My Own Story
(N.Y.: Greenberg, 1948), p. 7.
83.
he has NEVER had
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Feb. 14, 1948.
84.
The idea that Branch
: Branch B. Rickey to author, interview, Feb. 27, 1997.
85.
It was a tempest
: BE, March 19, 1949.
86.
one bad deed by
: PC, March 5, 1949.
87.
Sisler showed me how
: PC, April 9, 1949.
88.
I feel right now
: BE, March 28, 1949.
89.
The only danger from
: BE, April 7, 1949.
90.
I will play baseball
: BE, Jan. 16, 1949.
91.
I decided then
: PC, April 16, 1949.
92.
Robinson, on the other
: PC, April 16, 1949.
93.
The Dodgers will have
: PC, May 7, 1949.
94.
This kid’s going to
: PC, June 25, 1949.
95.
I cuss him out
: PC, Aug. 16, 1949.
96.
Negro Troops Fight Bravely
: BE, June 23, 1949.
97.
I couldn’t understand why
: misc. fragment, ms, n.d., JRP.
98.
As you know
: Leslie Perry to JR, July 11, 1949, BRP, LC.
99.
I think it was
: misc. fragment, n.d., JRP.
100.
It is unthinkable
: NYT, April 21, 1949.
101.
Now a white man
: Rowan,
Wait
, p. 203.
102.
rousing ovation
: Ronald A. Smith, “The Paul Robeson–Jackie Robinson Saga and a Political Collision,”
Journal of Sport History
6 (Summer 1979), p. 14.
103.
the greatest step ever
: Montreal
Gazette,
October 24, 1945.
104.
I felt so badly
: Sarah [Satlow] Cymrot, interview.
105.
There ain’t nothing wrong
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.
106.
Intent on him
: Rachel Robinson, “I Live with a Hero,”
Negro Digest,
June 1951, p. 10.
107.
is as far removed
: Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups, Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, July 18, 1949, pp. 479–483.
108.
the Ebony Express
: BE, July 19, 1949.
109.
Public speaking must agree
: ibid.
110.
Credo of an American
: NYP, July 19, 1949.
111.
Quite a man
: New York
Daily News,
July 20, 1949.
112.
split sharply
: New York
Age,
July 23, 1949.
113.
boomeranged
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
July 23, 1949.
114.
not one single case
: Lester Granger to JR, July 19, 1949, BRP, LC.
115.
I have no quarrel
: BE, July 21, 1949.
116.
I have boxes
: WP, Aug. 30, 1949.
117.
anger written all over
: Bill Mardo to the
Nation,
May 5, 1995; courtesy of Bill Mardo.
118.
if Mr. Robeson wants
:
Daily Worker,
Aug. 29, 1949.
119.
wiser and closer
:
I Never,
p. 98.
120.
Jackie Robinson put his
: Bill Mardo to the
Nation,
May 5, 1995.
121.
Without Robinson
: PC, Aug. 13, 1949.
122.
You must admit
: cited in PC, Aug. 13, 1949.
123.
They couldn’t get me
: PC, Sept. 10, 1949.
124.
Well, what do you
: PC, Nov. 26, 1949.
125.
What is there to
: PC, Oct. 15, 1949.
126.
a light case of
: PC, Nov. 12, 1949.
127.
All this means
: PC, Nov. 26, 1949.
1.
All America must applaud
: misc. clippings, n.d., JRP.
2.
It’s the best way
: WP, Aug. 23, 1949.
3.
The strain of the last
: New York
Daily News,
Nov. 19, 1949.
4.
This is too supervised
:
Daily Worker
clipping, n.d. [1949], JRP.
5.
heard me speak
: Arnold Forster,
Square One: A Memoir
(N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, 1988), p. 97.
6.
That may be so
: Rachel Robinson, interview.
7.
One way we knew
: ibid.
8.
Mommy, my hands
: ibid.
9.
Look, there’s discrimination
: Jack Harrison Pollack, “Meet a Family Named Robinson,”
Parents’ Magazine & Family Home Guide,
Oct. 1955, p. 111.
10.
I wish I was white
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.
11.
Pitches Curves!
: “The Jackie Robinson Story,”
Ebony,
June 1950, p. 83.
12.
Jack was mentioned
: Martin Stone to author, interview, July 14, 1995.
13.
Two of the big
: “The Jackie Robinson Story,”
Ebony,
p. 91.
14.
this might sound like
: Arthur Mann to Branch Rickey, Nov. 18, 1949, BRP.
15.
It took all
: “The Jackie Robinson Story,”
Ebony,
p. 92.
16.
Jackie made a tremendous
: SN, May 10, 1950.
17.
He was a loyal
: Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner,
Oct. 26, 1972.
18.
The way they had
: “The Jackie Robinson Story,”
Ebony,
p. 92.
19.
I simply explained
: ibid.
20.
Are you kidding?
: SN, May 10, 1950.
21.
In one scene
: Ruby Dee to author, interview, July 20, 1995.
22.
a mildly romantic scene
: “Jackie Robinson’s Double Play,”
Life,
May 8, 1950, p. 131.
23.
The moment I talked
: Ruby Dee, interview.
24.
patronizing and offensive
: Carl E. Prince,
Brooklyn’s Dodgers: The Bums, the Borough, and the Best of Baseball,
1947
–
1957
(New York: Oxford, 1996), p. 35.
25.
Surprisingly, Jackie Robinson
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.
26.
Here the simple story
: NYT, May 17, 1950.
27.
we are going to
: PC, Feb. 11, 1950.
28.
I’m not going to
: PC, Feb. 4, 1950.
29.
Robinson’s recently accumulated
: PC, April 1, 1950.
30.
Of course, in the case
: New York
Daily News,
Jan. 26, 1950.
31.
Jackie is a better
: PC, April 29, 1950.
32.
He’s the indispensable man
: PC, June 17, 1950.
33.
consistency against
: Allan Roth, “1949 Brooklyn Dodgers,” Los Angeles Dodgers Archives.
34.
Let’s not have no
: Harold Parrott,
The Lords of Baseball
(N.Y.: Praeger, 1976), p. 218.
35.
Better go easy, Jackie
: SN, Aug. 29, 1951.
36.
That strike was right
: SN, July 12, 1950.
37.
Frick has given these
: ibid.
38.
There is no question
: PC, July 15, 1950.
39.
the biggest deal
: SN, Oct. 4, 1950.
40.
That was a lot
: Los Angeles
Times,
June 5, 1972.
41.
the little guy
: SN, March 7, 1951.
42.
about a month
: JR to Branch Rickey, n.d., BRP, LC.
43.
Sometimes my family
: Branch B. Rickey to author, interview, Feb. 24, 1997.
44.
Jackie Headed for Polo
: SN, Sept. 27, 1950.
45.
I’ll have my family
: PC, Aug. 12, 1950.
46.
Nothing was promised
: SN, Nov. 21, 1951.
47.
no reason why
: PC, March 31, 1951.
48.
Because the call comes
: memorandum to John D. Rockefeller III, Dec. 27, 1950, JRP.
49.
a vain, proud
: SN, Aug. 16, 1950.