Jackie Robinson (91 page)

3.
put a real hurting
: Jack Gordon, interview.

4.
to say that Robinson
: PC, Jan. 25, 1947.

5.
I have made every
: PC, Feb. 1, 1947.

6.
I guess Mr. Rickey
: ibid.

7.
the things which are
: Mann, pp. 160–161.

8.
the
one
enemy most
: Mann, pp. 162–163.

9.
I was told that
:
I Never,
p. 68.

10.
I can’t afford to
: Roger Kahn, “The Ten Years of Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
October 1955, p. 12.

11.
I honestly wouldn’t know
: SN, April 2, 1947.

12.
but the crowd came
: SN, March 26, 1947.

13.
I want you to run
:
I Never,
p. 69.

14.
startling
: SN, March 26, 1947.

15.
The infield was made
: SN, April 2, 1947.

16.
Robinson’s movements around
: ibid.

17.
When they take their
: PC, March 29, 1947.

18.
It would be a crime
: SN, March 26, 1947.

19.
He’s a swell ball
: PC, March 1, 1947.

20.
because people might
think
: NYT, March 30, 1947.

21.
far off his usual
: SN, April 2, 1947.

22.
there is also little
: SN, March 26, 1947.

23.
did not suffer by
: SN, April 2, 1947.

24.
I wasn’t trying
: NYT, July 17, 1977.

25.
there were five of
: Kirby Higbe,
The High Hard One
(N.Y.: Viking, 1967), pp. 103–104.

26.
I don’t care if
: Harold Parrott,
The Lords of Baseball
(N.Y.: Praeger, 1976), pp. 208–209.

27.
When you’re born
:
Daily News
(Philadelphia), April 14, 1987.

28.
He really reamed me
: NYT, Dec. 10, 1981.

29.
that a little show
:
I Never,
p. 68.

30.
Recently the thought
: Dixie Walker to Branch Rickey, March 26, 1947, BRP.

31.
No player on this
: NYT, April 1, 1947.

32.
one of the greatest
: PC, March 22, 1947.

33.
a tendency to choke up
: PC, April 5, 1947.

34.
I tried not to notice
: Roy Campanella,
It’s Good to Be Alive
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1959), p. 131.

35.
the most delicate question
: NYT, April 9, 1947.

36.
detrimental to baseball
: NYT, April 10, 1947.

37.
several thousand Negroes
: NYT, April 11, 1947.

38.
an unimpeachable source
: PC, March 29, 1947.

39.
My boy, I must
: NYT, Oct. 26, 1972.

40.
Robinson, how are you
: PC, April 19, 1947.

41.
Next time I go
: ibid.

42.
He’s certain to continue
: NYT, April 12, 1947.

43.
We were scared
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

44.
I was determined
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

45.
I did a miserable
:
I Never,
p. 70.

46.
If they’re all like
: New York
Daily News,
April 17, 1947.

47.
perfect
: NYT, April 18, 1947.

48.
Robby has supreme confidence
: New York
Daily News,
April 17, 1947.

49.
The muscular Negro
: NYT, April 16, 1947.

50.
They came to see
: Red Barber,
1947
—When All Hell Broke Loose in Baseball
(N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982), p. 155.

51.
a thousand people
: PC, April 19, 1947.

52.
We never thought of
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

53.
I don’t know what
: PC, April 26, 1947.

54.
Hi, Black Boy!
: ibid.

55.
He’s not a ballplayer
: New York
Daily Mirror,
April 17, 1947.

56.
I ain’t going to
: Lester Rodney to Paul Buhle and Michael Fermanowsky, transcript of interview, 1981, UCLA Oral History Program, UCLA Archives, p. 66.

57.
a swell bunch
: Marty Solow, “Meet Jackie Robinson,”
Union Voice
, April 27, 1947.

58.
Jackie is sitting
: Boston
Globe,
Jan. 24, 1962.

59.
the loneliest man
: May 10, 1947.

60.
of all the unpleasant
:
I Never,
pp. 71–72.

61.
The things the Phillies
: PC, May 3, 1947.

62.
Listen, you yellow-bellied
:
I Never,
p. 73.

63.
the only gentleman
: ibid.

64.
Chapman did more than
:
I Never,
p. 74.

65.
Photographers sprang up
: Barber, p. 162.

66.
If you do this
: New York
Herald Tribune,
May 9, 1947.

67.
We have a great
: NYT, April 29, 1947.

68.
bring the Nigger here
: Parrott, p. 193.

69.
And don’t bring your
: ibid.

70.
pointed bats at me
:
I Never,
p. 76.

71.
This is something I
: Parrott, p. 217.

72.
Having my picture taken
:
I Never,
p. 75.

73.
Chapman impressed me
: PC, May 17, 1947.

74.
scrawled and scribbled
: Parrott, p. 190.

75.
I felt they should
: Philadelphia
Inquirer,
May 10, 1947.

76.
I do not profess
: PC, June 7, 1947.

77.
the Negro first baseman
: NYT, May 13, 1947.

78.
Stick in there
: PC, May 24, 1947.

79.
Class tells
: NYT, May 18, 1947.

80.
The guys on the team
: PC, May 24, 1947.

81.
I used to go out
:
I Never,
p. 78.

82.
Find out for yourself
: Duke Snider and Bill Gilbert,
The Duke of Flatbush
(N.Y.: Zebra, 1988), p. 21.

83.
I had been
: ibid.

84.
Robinson is now paying
: PC, May 31, 1947.

85.
displayed too much enthusiasm
: ibid.

86.
fears and apprehensions
: PC, June 7, 1947.

87.
In
1947
,
Jackie
: Roger Wilkins to author, interview, May 16, 1995.

88.
But as he had
: Barber, p. 200.

89.
in dear old Brooklyn
: PC, May 31, 1947.

90.
I have learned that
: PC, June 14, 1947.

91.
Times were simpler
: Snider, p. 20.

92.
were eating at his
: Parrott, p. 199.

93.
Darling, As we fly
: JR to Rachel Robinson, n.d., RRP.

94.
he was not yet
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

95.
I’ve met most
: misc. clipping, n.d., JRP.

96.
The feeling in Brooklyn
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

97.
a swell bunch
: PC, June 21, 1947.

98.
definitely one
: PC, June 28, 1947.

99.
very viciously
: WP, Aug. 28, 1949.

100.
I get all kinds
: Boston
Daily Herald,
June 28, 1947.

101.
You haven’t seen Robinson
: misc. uniden. clipping, June 25, 1947, JRP.

102.
He is a grand
: PC, July 12, 1947.

103.
amazing for a rookie
: Toronto
Star,
July 7, 1947.

104.
came within
an inch
: Barber, p. 277.

105.
Hate was running high
: Barber, p. 278.

106.
Slaughter deliberately went
:
I Never,
p. 80.

107.
I know the truth
: NYT, Sept. 29, 1996.

108.
You better play your
: Roscoe McGowen, “If You Were Jackie Robinson,”
Sport,
September 1947, p. 41.

109.
broke up [the] incipient
: SN, Sept. 24, 1947.

110.
Ty Cobb in Technicolor
: Christopher Jennison,
Wait ’Til Next Year: The Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants,
1947
–
1957
(N.Y.: Norton, 1974), p. 22.

111.
I have tried to
: PC, Aug. 23, 1947.

112.
The sociological experiment
: Rowan, pp. 193–194.

113.
No other ballplayer
:
I Never,
p. 81.

114.
So we’re in it
: PC, Oct. 4, 1947.

115.
I’ve played a lot
: PC, Oct. 11, 1947.

116.
It was a pleasure
: misc. clipping, Jan. 6, 1948, JRP.

117.
Many of us who
: John A. Williams to author, interview, April 17, 1997.

1.
good sport
: anon. to JR, n.d., AMP, LC.

2.
the whole nation
: C. C. Spaulding to JR, Oct. 3, 1947, AMP, LC.

3.
I was being watched
: JR, misc. fragment, ms., n.d., JRP.

4.
I’ve got to make
: ibid.

5.
should do something
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Oct. 25, 1947.

6.
why would he have
: NYAN
,
Oct. 25, 1947.

7.
Jack couldn’t sing
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

8.
a new low
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Nov. 1, 1947.

9.
a picture of dapper
: NYAN
,
Oct. 25, 1947.

10.
for his interest
: ibid.

11.
gracious, down-right big-hearted
: Red Skelton to JR, Feb. 19, 1948, JRP.

12.
Jackie took the boy’s
: misc. clipping, uniden., JRP.

13.
We’d pull off the
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

14.
the first man in
: Oakland
Tribune,
Dec. 2, 1947.

15.
a short but impressive
: PC, Jan. 3, 1948.

16.
More than SIXTY THOUSAND
: Arthur Mann,
The Jackie Robinson Story
(N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 1951), p. 202.

17.
We ate like pigs
:
I Never,
p. 83.

18.
There’s no question
: NYAN
,
Dec. 6, 1947.

19.
I respected and respect
: Rachel Robinson, interview.

20.
considerable vehemence
: Mann, p. 202.

21.
Mr. Rickey and I
: PC, Feb. 21, 1948.

22.
Complications set in
:
I Never,
pp. 82–83.

23.
I met all the gang
: PC, March 13, 1948.

24.
The best second baseman
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
March 13, 1948.

25.
I was sorry to see
: PC, March 20, 1948.

26.
Wherever they tell me
: PC, April 17, 1948.

27.
I’m just a player
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
Dec. 6, 1947.

28.
What in the world
: PC, March 13, 1948.

29.
I think Durocher is
: New York
Daily News,
March 29, 1948.

30.
After an inexcusably
: Baltimore
Afro-American,
March 27, 1948.

31.
conscious of their color
: PC, March 13, 1948.

32.
pulled and tugged
: PC, March 20, 1948.

33.
I miss him
: PC, March 27, 1948.