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Thank you everybody for tuning in tonight. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im marcia eli from the Brooklyn Public Librarys center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team bpl presents. This year Brooklyn Public Library celebrates, its 125th anniversary. Our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is stewarding the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. These are archives are the combined materials from the brooklyn Public Libraries special collections. And those of the former Brooklyn Historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. So we are celebrating these a ....
For targeted killing overseas. It was one year ago today that two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, survivors First Responders and family members of the four People Killed that week gathered this afternoon to mark the solemn anniversary at the exact moment the bombs went off a flag was raised at the site of the attack. What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars. And john terrett joins us now from bostons fenway park in boston. John, if you would, walk us through todays events. It was really well done by the city. Reporter it was very well done. And i think, tony, this is a day that the city of boston has been seeking, as a cathartic moment to try to begin the healing process proper. After the bombings of a year ago. Now, of course the healing ....
154game season and the intense concentration involved in hitting a rocketing round ball with a round bat. And when in the field, tensing in anticipation on at least 120 pitches every game. Robinson had to excel at the most difficult game under the most difficult of conditions. With the attention of black america focused on his every at bat, he succeeded in in spite of excrew chaiting excruciating tension. He became the perfect model for black americans and for white americans too. His style of play was everything that blacks were then rarely allowed to be; confident, aggressive, dashing, aristocratic. In a 1947 game with the archrival giants with the score tied and one out, robinson doubled. When he tagged and went to third on a flyout, a giant official complained thats bush league stuff. With two occupants hes just outs hes just as valuable on second as he is on third. Whats he going to do now, steal home, i suppose . On the next pitch, he stole home. [laughter] some called him uppity ....
Josh Gibson, the legendary Negro Leagues player, is now recognized as Major League Baseball's all-time batting average leader with a .372 average, surpassing Ty Cobb, following MLB's integration of Negro Leagues statistics. Learn more about Gibson's historic career and his lasting impact on baseball history. ....