One of the most endearing moments of yesterday's ESPN broadcast of the Sunday Night Baseball game from Dodger Stadium was in the third or fourth inning, when a Dodger player hit a ball to the wall in left field. Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow (and a wonderful woman in her own right; she founded The Jackie Robinson Foundation, a scholarship outfit which has given out more than $14.5M in grants (pdf) over its history) was in the broadcast booth, in the midst of a conversation with commentators Joe Morgan and Jon Miller; she broke off the conversation to shout "Yay!" at the run-scoring double.
At another moment, she was asked whether she agreed with the timing of Jackie's retirement (which happened when the Dodgers traded him to the Giants after the 1956 season); she said she agreed with it entirely. Why, she was asked. Because, she said, she couldn't imagine him playing for the Giants, a team he and she regarded as the enemy from their first days in Brooklyn.
Once a Dodgers fan, always a Dodgers fan.
Posted by Linkmeister at April 16, 2007 08:12 AM | TrackBack