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Soup ads, the moms delivering soups, we all love those moms. terrence, go ahead. i think it s a myth when people believe that this is a recent phenomena this fusion between athletes and society. we re actually going back to the future, okay? you go back to the times when ali, we certainly remember that, when he s like the ultimate in that of showing he s at the height of his career and showing injustices. you got jackie robinson, went behind april 15th 1947 breaking the color barrier. you re talking about he was fighting for justice with dr. martin luther king in early 1960s in the south. you ve got arthur ashe the things he stood up for, kareem abdul-jabbar. it was only that dead period in the 1990s when charles barkley said i am not a role model. michael jordan didn t want ....
Birthday. she turned skal eed 68. in honor of the occasion, today s five things will highlight 1947. number one, meet the press, it debuted on nbc in 47. it became a sunday happen for all things political. including, tim russert and chuck todd. chuck also hosted meet the press daily on msnbc at 5:00 p.m. eastern. number two, jackie robinson, april 15th, 1947. he played his first major league baseball game when he took the field for the brooklyn dodgers, making history as the first african-american player to play in the major leagues. number three, a christmas miracle. an oscar won for miracle on 34th street, which premiered in may. miracle on 34th street also starred maureen o hara who passed away on saturday. number four, going supersonic. chuck jaeger became the first person to break the sound ....
Contributor about his life and, segregation and how jackie robinson urged him to speak out about issues far beyond the baseball field. you know, i always thought it was ironic on april 15th, 1947, jackie robinson breaks the color barrier. you hit that home run to top babel ruth on april 8th, 1974. that s almost 27 years almost to the date, and he was your hero and i always was fascinated about that story that you told me when you first saw jackie robinson when you were a kid. of course, back then i was my mother my parents expected me to go to school, and i had read about what jackie and the dodgers were going to play an exhibition game in mobile, and jackie was speaking i believe at a drugstore. i said, now, i m not going to have this opportunity again, so i said i better take my chance on listening to jackie robinson now. and little did i know that i got ....
Told me, hank, i didn t know what to do when you started running around the bases and those two guys started running behind you. i said, i m glad you didn t shoot, because they would have it those two guys was having nothing but just fun, that s all. i can remember very clearly that monday the day that you hit the home run, parents and the two brothers and i gathered around the television set. it is similar, it had to be to where perhaps you and others back on april 15th, 1947, gathered around the radio for jackie robinson. you were our jackie robinson. did you get the sensation of how important you were to the black community with what you were doing, what you were going through? yes, i did. in some ways i felt the importance of what i was doing was really sending a signal to the world, was telling people that, hey, yeah, all you wanted to do was having the playing field level. just give me an opportunity. yes, i felt that way. i felt that way that not only ....