http://www.gothamist.com/2007/04/15/baseball_honors.php All comments for Baseball Honors Jackie Robinson en-us 2007 jen Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:08:15 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss jen@gothamist.com jen@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2007/04/15/baseball_honors.php#comment-1067544 http://www.gothamist.com/2007/04/15/baseball_honors.php#comment-1067544 Comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:14:00 -0500 <p>This needs a bit of a rewrite: When Robinson took the field to play first base against the Boston Braves, he became the first African-American player in the modern era of Major League Baseball. Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker in the 1880s was the first. Now do you really expect Major League Baseball to be highlighting truth when Giants slugger Sterioids is hitting home runs? And we also love MLB's most racially sensitive team the Cleveland Indians with their wonderfuly tasteful logo. Got to love Bud "lets steal the Seattle Pilots and move them to Wisconsin" Seilg and his selective thinking. Still Jackie Robinson was not only a great player and a great man. Just look in to his refusal to sit in the back of the bus when he was in the Army and his court martial.</p>