Jackie Robinson (92 page)

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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.

CHAPTER 10

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.