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• A Recipe for Success Needs this Secret

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
      In 1907, during a major league baseball game, second base was stolen 13 times by the winning team.  The catcher for the losing team, Branch Rickey, was unable to pick off even a single runner.  That record stands to this day.  It also spelled the end of Rickey’s career as a baseball player after just two ...
  4 days ago

• The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

  
  Cinemaroll — Authority: 137
  The Jackie Robinson Story lobby card set image courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries Director Alfred E. Green and Eagle-Lion Films delivered The Jackie Robinson Story to movie theaters in 1950. Jack Roosevelt Robinson stars, with Ruby Dee as his wife and Minor Watson as the legendary Branch Rickey. Mort Briskin ...
  5 days ago

• Mets Finally Embrace History at Citi Field

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 148
  The Mets just announced their plans to address the lack of history at Citi Field. First they will rename areas of the ballpark after Tom Seaver, Casey Stengel, Gil Hodges, and Bill Shea. There will be a Hall of Fame committee which will have members of the media and team voting on future inductees into a new ...
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• The 10 Best Sports Movies Based on Real Life

  
  Inside Movies — Authority: 155
  Inspirational sports stories have always been a popular subject for movies, but theres a special subset of this genre - true life underdog stories - that can be the most awe-inspiring of all. The latest such film, The Blind Side, is ... Read more Filed under: Features Permalink  |  Email this  |  ...
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• Smoking Gun: Red Sox Owner Was Blatant Racist

  
  SPORTSbyBROOKS — Authority: 735
  In case you don’t know, the Boston Red Sox was the last MLB team to sign a black player - 14 long years after Jackie Robinson inked a deal with the Dodgers. Because of that, there’s been plenty of speculation as to why it took the Bosox so long to integrate. Longtime baseball writer and editor Glenn ...
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• Review: Theatre Seven’s “Cooperstown”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 137
    Theatre Seven presents: Cooperstown by Brian Golden directed by Brian Stojak thru December 20th ( ticket info ) reviewed by Catey Sullivan   Intertwined aspects of race, love and Civil Rights have been examined ad infinitum in many a previous drama. But with Cooperstown ...
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• The Don Says… Michael Jordan’s number should be retired by all NBA teams

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 547
  By Adan Vasquez Daily Titan Sports Editor Basketball as we know it has been around for decades. Players have come and gone, some good, others great. But every now and then there comes a special individual who stands out. His name is Michael Jordan. Anyone who remembers the Jordan Era remembers the moment he burst ...
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• Glenn Stout On Tom Yawkey

  
  6-4-2 an Angels/Dodgers double play blog — Authority: 515
  Jay Jaffe on Facebook turned me on to Glenn Stouts takedown of Tom Yawkeys less-than-convincing explanation as to why there wasnt a black player on the Red Sox until Pumpsie Green , whose rookie year of 1959 came 12 years after Jackie Robinson won the first Rookie of the Year award. The fact that Stout has a blog ...
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• Lebron James to retire #23?

  
  GET RECRUITED FOR SPORTS SCHOLARSHIPS- football, baseball, soccer, basketball, cheerleading + more! — Authority: 122
  One of the highest regards in sports is to have your number retired, not just by your team, but by the association. In the vast years, and the thousands of players, only a lucky few have been graced with this honor. This subject was recently under discussion after Thursday nights Cavaliers-Heat game. LeBron James ...
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• BBWAA Awards To Be Announced All Week @ 2 PM ET

  
  Cardinals Best News Links — Authority: 457
  The annual BBWAA awards will be revealed starting this week. Here is the schedule:Boston GlobeThis week starts the unveiling of baseball’s biggest awards, the ones presented each year by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and one that could be dotted with St. Louis Cardinals.Cardinal Beat
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• OPINION: LeBron’s Quest To Retire Jordan’s #23 Is Misguided

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 629
  “I just think what Michael Jordan has done for the game has to be recognized some way soon,” James said. “There would be no LeBron James, no Kobe Bryant , no Dwyane Wade if there wasn’t Michael Jordan first. “He can’t get the logo [Hall of Famer Jerry Wests silhouette adorns the NBAs logo], and if he ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hunt Auctions: Dodger Art and History

  
  Blue Heaven — Authority: 126
  Hunt Auction is once again holding their 6th Annual Live Auction at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory this month. There are some "doozies" here including a complete run of autographed & game-used Baseball All-Star jerseys (including Dodgers Broxton , Billingsley & Hudson ) from 2009 and Curt ...
  2 weeks ago

• 4th Annual “JAZZ On The Grass” Benefit Concert Hosted By Jackie Robinson Foundation

  
  All Your Jazz — Authority: 127
  Jackie Robinson Foundation hosts the 4th Annual JAZZ on the Grass Benefit Concert starring multi-Grammy award winner & Oscar nominee James Ingram, Grammy Nominee Patrice Rushen, and Grammy & Tony Nominee Singer/Songwriter Brenda Russell. The event will take place on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 from 2:00 ...
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• Offense/Defense Number (Part One)

  
  Cardinals Best News Links — Authority: 457
  Blu Mar Tens "Natural History" album came out this week, and I couldnt be more excited. Its excellence in experimental drumnbass reinforces that theyre one of the best two-way bands out there, as their previous albums developed their other strength of evocative chillout music. Few bands are equally good in two genres, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Talking Baseball…

  
  Stephanie Oppenheim on Toys — Authority: 137
  Not sure what to do tonight without the World Series…sleep might be a good idea!  All of this baseball reminded me of one our Platinum Award winners, Testing the Ice, A True Story About Jackie Robinson written by his daughter Sharon (published by Scholastic ) . Read our review .
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• Great Dodger Photos via Legendary Auctions

  
  Blue Heaven — Authority: 126
  Legendary Auctions recently had a bunch of vintage press photos on eBay for sale. Below are some choice examples featuring our beloved boys in blue. OMalley and a whole cadre of Dodger fans from the old borough of Brooklyn cheer on the Dodgers before the 1963 World Series against the Yankees. The old Brooklyn ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neighborhood Foundation makes donation to Robinson Academy for academic-support program

  
  Signal Tribune Newspaper — Authority: 129
  From left: Martha Melendez, teacher; David Espinoza, teacher; Gavin McKiernan, president of the Long Beach Neighborhood Foundations board of directors; Stephanie Jones, Robinson Academy principal; PTSA President Joy Mendoza; Bradford Waterman, teacher The Long Beach Neighborhood Foundation this week donated $650 to ...
  4 weeks ago

• O Brother

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 727
  Something wonderful, or terrible, is taking place in Philadelphia. The citys sports fans, whose only consistent love has been for an inanimate object--the statue of Rocky--are becoming warm and fuzzy.
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• Somehow, The Muskbox Gets Worse

  
  Hire Jim Essian — Authority:
  We live in an unstable world. Each day, we walk out our front doors not knowing what the day has in store for us. Will our car die on the way to work? We will make it to work without avoiding an accident? If we make it to work safely, will our job still be there? But even in this time of uncertainty, there is one ...
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• Mark DeRosas Return To Cubs Always A Possiblity, Especially With Rudy Jaramillo Hired

  
  Cardinals Best News Links — Authority: 457
  I know youve gotten a lot of questions like this but since Mark DeRosa is a free agent, is there any chance the Cubs will bring him back? It seems that since he was traded, we have a big hole at second base and he was probably the most liked player on the Cubs in 08, and fans were pretty upset after he was traded.-- ...
  4 weeks ago

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