Five Things You Didn’t Know About Jackie Robinson
By Tara Fowler
It’s a film that’s been 20 years in the making: a biopic on Jackie Robinson, the man to break the color barrier in baseball. Sure, there’ve been others, such as 1950’s “The Jackie Robinson Story” (starring Robinson himself) or TNT’s “The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson” or HBO’s “Soul of the Game.” And yet, there’s never been one like this weekend’s “42,” starring Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, the Dodgers’ general manager who signed him. I don’t want to spoil it, so all I can say is, don’t miss seeing “42.” But to prepare you, here are…
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