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9. Fixed. It was a typo.

Sat Apr 16, 2016, 08:00 AM

Apr 2016

I am a SF Giants fan.

I attended at least one game each year from 1959 to 2003.

Wiilie Mays and Juan Marichal were my biggest childhood heroes.

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The unsanitized story of Jackie Robinson [View all] PufPuf23 Apr 2016 OP

or the cost. Octafish Apr 2016 #5

Ah, Ken Burns did a new documentary, I see. malthaussen Apr 2016 #2

Monday and Tuesday night malaise Apr 2016 #3

I'm pretty happy with my own understanding of the story... malthaussen Apr 2016 #4

Campanella came across. .. kwassa Apr 2016 #6

47, not 57. malthaussen Apr 2016 #8

Fixed. It was a typo. PufPuf23 Apr 2016 #9

Presumably, then, you were alive when they were in New York. malthaussen Apr 2016 #10

Alive when Giants were in New York but very young. PufPuf23 Apr 2016 #13

The gist of the article sounds like a smack-down of Reaganism Boomerproud Apr 2016 #11

Or, taking it back farther, a smack-down of consensus history... malthaussen Apr 2016 #15

You don't see this picture of him too often oberliner Apr 2016 #12

Aren't some of those looks from folks in the background precious? malthaussen Apr 2016 #14

Robinson endorsed and campaigned for Nixon in 1960 oberliner Apr 2016 #16

The fact that Larry Doby and Hank Thompson are all but forgotten ScreamingMeemie Apr 2016 #17

To say nothing of Willard Brown malthaussen Apr 2016 #19

International inspiration: Jackie Robinson's impact on Cuba PufPuf23 Apr 2016 #18