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Moshe Moshe: The Baseball World Does Not Forget Jackie Robinson | Israel today

2022-04-15T07:29:49.283Z


75 years after the historic debut of the pioneer, who became the first African-American to play in the American Major League, all the coaching players with shirt number 42 will go up across the league tonight, to pay homage to Moses of American baseball. He was also released thanks to his Jewish friends


Tonight will mark Jackie Robinson's day in the local baseball league in the United States.

Robinson, the first African-American player in the history of American baseball, also went free thanks to his Jewish friends, who surrounded him and brought freedom to American sports and the African-American community that had not been there before.

Robinson was the first black player in the history of the MLB (Major League Baseball), America's top baseball league, and is considered to this day one of the greatest symbols and a pioneer in American sports.

Robinson's shirt.

Breakthrough, Photo: Reuters

After becoming the first student in UCLA history to receive honors in four different sports, and after the U.S. became embroiled in Pearl Harbor events, Robinson, like most of his friends, enlisted in the military. A year in complete separation from the MLB.In those days no one thought Black could play in another league.

But 38 percent of the batting success in 47 games in the "Black League" caught the attention of the Brooklyn Dodgers from the "White League".

The Dodgers took advantage of the departure of the league's commissioner, racist and black hater Kansau Landis, and the entry into the role of Happy Chandler, who did not hesitate to announce: "If they (the black players) can die in Okinawa, they can play baseball in America."

The logo in the image of Robinson.

USA does not forget,

Chandler's statement was his confirmation waiting for Branch Ricky, the manager and owner of the Dodgers, to sign for the first time an African-American player on the MLB team.

In '46, Jackie Robinson came up to play for the Dodgers and finished the season as the Outstanding Young Player of the Year.

Brooklyn, half of whose residents were Jews, also saw Robinson as an ambassador for the city's large community. 

The Jew Lester Rodney, editor of the largest communist newspaper in the United States, sent white reporters to the Black Baseball League and identified Robinson's tremendous potential there.

Robinson's path to success was through butts: in the following years he would suffer from teasing in almost every city to which he would come to play both from the crowd and rival players.

When he came with his team to play in cities where there was a separation between blacks and whites, he was forced to eat dinner without his teammates, and even sleep in separate hotels.

Shirley Fovich, the Washington Post's senior sports correspondent, waged struggles for him as a Jew but also as a fighter for justice: "How can the local baseball league give up millions of dollars just because it does not share black stars?"

Asked Batorio.

Robinson's shirt number, 42, across the league,

His relationship with Hank Greenberg, the great Jewish baseball star, was the highlight of the African-American star's career.

Greenberg once said, "I thought I was suffering, until I saw what Jackie was going through."

When Greenberg moved to Pittsburgh after World War II, Brooklyn came into the game against Greenberg's team as its players deliberately try to hurt Robinson at all costs.

The year was 1947, and Robinson was surrounded by hatred and when the bullets hit him, he groaned in pain.

In the middle of the game Greenberg approached him and whispered in his ear: "Do not pay attention to them, lift your chin, you do a great job and continue like this."

At the end of the game Robinson was asked to comment on what he went through in the game: "The class speaks. And when you look at Mr. Greenberg, it just spills over from him."

After their careers, Greenberg and Robinson became friends who fought racism together: they wanted actors to be able to sleep together in hotels and eat together in restaurants, and this further connected the Jewish community to Robinson.

When he wanted to buy a house in the suburbs of New York, the white community objected to an African-American being their neighbor.

The story made headlines, and Andrea Simon, the daughter of the famous publisher Richard Simon (Simon & Schuster) went to war for Robinson and with the help of Jewish brokers from the community and also Jewish bank executives, who were the only ones who agreed to give Robinson a mortgage, he managed to win his freedom Their dreams.

Work in the baseball industry No one agreed to give Robinson and he entered the restaurant business with the help of the Jewish community.

Robinson became an activist for equal rights, and in fact in his adulthood was surrounded by Jews and African-Americans most of the time because Christian whites did not want to be his friends.

In 1962, the black community came out against the owner of the world-famous blues club, the Apollo in Harlem, which was of course Jewish.

Robinson came to the neighborhood and raged: "Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as anti-blacks. How do you want to deal with the racism we suffer from if you behave that way?".

At the same time, Robinson has repeatedly quoted the Jewish religion, apparently without meaning to: "Life is not meaningful unless you succeed in influencing the lives of others."

Robinson's statue.

Moshe of the Baseball League, Photo: AP

On April 15, 1997, 50 years after his debut, the MLB removed the Robinson shirt number, 42, from the use of all teams as a sign of respect for his accomplishments.

Tonight, 75 years since that inaugural event, all the players, coaches and teammates will come up with a number 42 shirt and pay homage to Moses of American baseball, who would not have won an election without his Jewish friends.

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Source: israelhayom

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