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SMITH: In 1945, America's greatest generation
came back from war.
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MAN 1:
The flags of freedom fly over Europe.
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SMITH:
Nazi Germany had been defeated...
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...and three months later,
Imperial Japan surrendered as well.
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MAN 2'.
And there's jubilation around this earth.
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SMITH: Men returned home. Among them,
some of baseball's most beloved names.
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Musial. DiMaggio. Williams.
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Life in the United States
could return to normal.
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- What's the guy's name?
-What's on second?
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- Who's on second?
-Who's on first?
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- I don't know.
-Third base.
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[ALL LAUGHING]
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SMITH: And baseball was proof positive
that democracy was real.
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A baseball box score, after all,
is a democratic thing.
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It doesn't say how big you are
or what religion you follow.
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It does not know how you voted
or the color of your skin.
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It simply states what kind of ballplayer
you were on any particular day.
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MAN 3'.
And he did it. It's a home run.
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They knew he'd do it.
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SMITH: African Americans
had served their country gallantly.
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They returned home from fighting
to free the world from tyranny...
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...only to find racism, segregation
and Jim Crow law still waiting at home.
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MAN 4'.
Segregation was the law...
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...and no group was more scrupulous
in its observance of custom...
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...than organized baseball.
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SMITH:
There was a long road ahead.
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If African Americans dreamed
of playing baseball...
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...it was not for the Yankees...
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...but for teams like the Kansas City
Monarchs of the Negro Leagues...
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...where the barnstorming style of play
stood in contrast to the Majors.
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In 1946, there were
16 Major League baseball teams...
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...with a total of 400 players
on their rosters.
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Every one of the 400 players
were white.
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But when opening day came in 1947,
that number dropped to 399...
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...and one man stood apart.
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[GRUNTS]
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RICKEY:
Gentlemen, I have a plan.
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Plan's good, Mr. Rickey.
You always have one.
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RICKEY:
My wife says I'm too old. Heh, heh.
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That my health's not up to it.
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My son says, uh, everybody in...
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Everybody in baseball
is gonna be against me. Heh.
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But I'm gonna do it.
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SUKEFORTH:
Do what, Mr. Rickey?
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I'm gonna bring a Negro ballplayer...
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...to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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With all due respect, sir,
have you lost your mind?
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Think-- Think about--
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Think about the abuse...
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...that you are gonna take
from the newspapers...
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...let alone how this is gonna play out
in Flatbush!
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Please, Mr. Rickey.
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Sit down, Harold.
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No law against it, Clyde.
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No.
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No, but there's a code.
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You break a law and get away with it,
some people think you're smart.
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You break an unwritten law...
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...you'll be an outcast.
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Mm-hm.
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So be it.
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New York's full of Negro baseball fans.
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Dollars aren't black and white,
they're green.
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Every dollar's green.
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I don't know who he is...
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...or where he is...
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...but he's coming.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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Hey, runner!
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Where'd you learn to move like that,
at a dime-a-dance night?
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Stand still!
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MAN:
There you are!
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[PANTING]
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UMPIRE:
Ball!
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[GRUNTS]
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Safe!
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JACKIE:
Catcher!
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When you gonna start throwing for real?
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You talking to me?
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You got a rag arm, catcher.
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Steal home.
You'll find out what kind of arm I got.
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Okay.
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I'm coming.
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Where's your shortstop from?
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California.
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Sure got a mouth on him.
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[BOTH GRUNT]
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UMPIRE:
Safe!
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MAN [ON RADIO]: Discussions
concerning Japan's offer of surrender.
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Washington, London, Moscow,
and Chungking...
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...now framing their decision.
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When this decision will be communicated
to Tokyo via the government's...
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- Fill her up?
- Yes, sir.
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MAN 1: You boys heading out?
MAN 2: Uh, Chicago.
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MAN 1:
Chicago, huh? Heh.
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- You boys get around.
- Yeah, we sure do.
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- Hey. Hey, you, where you going?
JACKIE: To the toilet.
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Hell, come on, boy.
You know you can't go in there.
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Them Cokes are a nickel.
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Take that hose out of the tank.
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- Robinson.
- What?
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I said take it out.
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We'll get our 99 gallons of gas
someplace else.
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All right, then. Go on.
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Go on! Use it.
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Roy Campanella.
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Hell of a player. He's too sweet.
They'd eat him alive.
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SUKEFORTH:
All right.
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Oh, sorry. Oh, wait. Sorry.
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- Satchel Paige, then.
RICKEY: He's too old.
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We need a player with a future,
not a past.
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Here.
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Jack Roosevelt Robinson.
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Four-sport college man, out of UCLA.
That means he's played with white boys.
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Playing for the Kansas City Monarchs.
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Twenty-six years old.
He's batting .350. Three-fifty.
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Methodist.
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Commissioned Army officer.
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He was court-martialed.
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SUKEFORTH:
He's a troublemaker.
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Well, he argues with umpires.
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A quick temper is his reputation.
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PARROTT".
Well, what was he court-martialed for?
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RICKEY: Wouldn't sit in the back
of a military bus. Fort Hood, Texas.
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Driver asked him to, uh, move back.
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[SCOFFS]
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MPs had to take him off.
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There, you see?
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I see he resents segregation.
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If he were white, we'd call that spirit.
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Robinson's a Methodist.
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I'm a Methodist. God's a Methodist.
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We can't go wrong. Find him.
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Bring him here.
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SUKEFORTH: How are you, fellas?
I'm looking for your, uh, shortstop.
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You Jackie Robinson?
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Who are you?
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JACKIE:
Mr. Rickey.
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What's this about?
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This is about baseball, Jackie.
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I see you starting in spring
with our affiliate in Montreal.
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If you make it there...
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...we'll try you down here...
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...with the Dodgers.
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With the white Brooklyn Dodgers.
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[SCOFFS]
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Hmm.
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I'll pay you $600 a month.
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And a $3500 bonus
when you sign the contract.
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That agreeable?
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- Yes, that's fine but--
- There's one condition.
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I know you can hit behind the runner.
That you can read a pitch.
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One question is...
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...can you control your temper?
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My temper?
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Yes, your temper! What are you, deaf?
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A black man in white baseball, heh,
can you imagine the reaction?
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The vitriol?
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Dodgers check into a hotel,
a, uh, a decent, good hotel.
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You're worn out from the road.
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Some clerk won't give you the pen
to sign in with.
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"We got no room for you, boy. Not even
down in the coal bin where you belong."
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Team stops at a restaurant.
Waiter won't take your order.
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"Didn't you see the sign on the door?
No niggers allowed."
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What are you gonna do then?
Fight him? Ruin all my plans?
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Answer me, you black son of a bitch!
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You want a player who doesn't
have the guts to fight back?
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No.
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No.
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I want a player who's got the guts
not to fight back.
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People aren't gonna like this.
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They're gonna do anything
to get you to react.
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Echo a curse with a curse
and, uh, they'll hear only yours.
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Follow a blow with a blow and they'll say,
"The Negro lost his temper."
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That "The Negro does not belong."
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Your enemy will be out in force...
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...and you cannot meet him
on his own low ground.
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We win with hitting, running, fielding.
Only that.
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We win if the world is convinced
of two things:
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That you are a fine gentleman
and a great baseball player.
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Like our Savior...
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...you gotta have the guts...
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...to turn the other cheek.
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Can you do it?
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You give me a uniform...
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...you give me a, heh,
number on my back...
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...and I'll give you the guts.
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[PHONE RINGING]
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Hello?
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JACKIE [OVER PHONE]:
Rae...
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[CHUCKLES]
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Jack.
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I'm in Brooklyn.
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Brooklyn? For what?
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Uh...
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I don't want to say on the phone.
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In fact, I'm not supposed to tell anyone.
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What's going on? Aren't you supposed
to be playing in Chicago?
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We've been tested, you and me.
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[OVER PHONE] We've done everything
the right way. We have.
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Me trying to make money,
you finishing school.
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We don't owe the world a thing.
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[OVER PHONE]
Only each other.
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Jack, what are you talking about?
What is going on? What happened?
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Will you marry me, Rae?
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Absolutely.
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[LAUGHS]
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Yes. Yes.
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When?
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Um...
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How about right now?
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Did my mom look happy?
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Yes. You know your mother loves me.
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Did my gram look happy?
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Yes.
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My brother look happy?
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- Heh, your brother?
- Ha, ha.
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Everyone looked happy. I've never seen
so many happy-looking people.
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Did Jack Robinson look happy?
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What if I can't make you happy?
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Too late.
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You already do.
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It's you and me, Rae.
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Ooh, ha, ha.
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Um...
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- Till the wheels fall off.
- Hmm.
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Oh, Jack, the world is waiting for us.
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The world can wait one more night.
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Are you coming, Mrs. Robinson?
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I'd follow you anywhere, Mr. Robinson.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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WOMAN [ON PA]:
Flight to Pensacola leaves in an hour.
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Flight to Pensacola leaves in an hour.
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"Flight to Pensacola leaves in an hour.
Flight to Pensacola leaves in an hour."
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Are you okay?
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I've just never seen one before.
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JACKIE:
Oh.
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Yeah, we're not in Pasadena anymore.
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Rae?
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Rae?
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Rae!
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Oh, boy.
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We have to lighten the plane.
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There's some bad weather east of here.
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A heavy plane is dangerous.
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So someone'll have to cancel.
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Look, I'm with the Brooklyn Dodger
organization.
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I have to get down to Daytona.
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I'm supposed to report to spring training
in the morning.
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WOMAN 1: We'll do our best to get you there
by tomorrow, but it might be the day after.
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- Jack.
WOMAN 2: Right this way.
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You gave away our seats?
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You get us back on that plane.
255
00:17:13,783 --> 00:17:16,202
You get us back on that plane right now.
256
00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:19,914
Do you wanna call the sheriff...
257
00:17:20,373 --> 00:17:21,958
...or should I?
258
00:17:40,435 --> 00:17:41,770
MAN:
Watch your step.
259
00:17:41,936 --> 00:17:44,272
Oop, there he is. There's my boy.
260
00:17:50,445 --> 00:17:53,114
Folks, stand back,
we'll get the bags out.
261
00:17:55,617 --> 00:17:56,659
Jackie Robinson.
262
00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:00,830
Wendell Smith.
263
00:18:02,832 --> 00:18:04,042
Pittsburgh Courier.
264
00:18:04,793 --> 00:18:05,919
A reporter?
265
00:18:07,712 --> 00:18:08,922
[CHUCKLES]
266
00:18:09,089 --> 00:18:12,842
Mr. Rickey sent me to meet you.
I'm gonna be your Boswell.
267
00:18:13,885 --> 00:18:15,053
My who?
268
00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:16,471
SMITH:
Your chronicler.
269
00:18:16,888 --> 00:18:18,848
Your advance man.
270
00:18:19,182 --> 00:18:21,476
Hell, even your chauffeur.
271
00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:22,977
Mrs. Robinson.
272
00:18:23,144 --> 00:18:24,521
It's Rachel.
273
00:18:24,979 --> 00:18:27,315
Man, you two looked wiped out.
274
00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:30,527
You got a car?
275
00:18:30,693 --> 00:18:32,445
Uh-huh.
276
00:18:34,614 --> 00:18:39,369
SMITH: Brooklyn plays downtown.
Montreal just a few blocks from here.
277
00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:56,886
Joe and Duff Harris live here.
278
00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:01,391
He gets out the Negro vote.
He does a lot of good for colored people.
279
00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:04,144
Now, Mr. Rickey set it up himself.
280
00:19:05,228 --> 00:19:07,730
"If the Robinsons can't stay
at the hotels...
281
00:19:07,897 --> 00:19:10,942
...they should stay someplace
that represents something."
282
00:19:11,192 --> 00:19:13,987
You'll stay here all but a few days
at the end of the week...
283
00:19:14,154 --> 00:19:18,908
...when the Dodger organization goes
to Sanford. It's about 45 minutes away.
284
00:19:19,367 --> 00:19:20,660
You'll stay here, Rachel.
285
00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:23,830
This'll be your home
when Jackie has to travel.
286
00:19:25,790 --> 00:19:27,584
Uh, where are the other wives staying?
287
00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:30,003
Welcome to Daytona Beach.
288
00:19:30,712 --> 00:19:33,047
- There are no other wives.
WOMAN: You must be Jackie.
289
00:19:33,214 --> 00:19:36,301
You're the only one that Mr. Rickey
allowed to spring training.
290
00:19:38,845 --> 00:19:41,431
- Thank you.
- Mm-hm. After you.
291
00:19:43,516 --> 00:19:44,559
MAN 1:
Come on, now, skip.
292
00:19:44,726 --> 00:19:46,769
MAN 2:
All right, here we go, boys!
293
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:49,856
"I got it! I got it!
“I got it!
294
00:19:51,566 --> 00:19:52,942
That was a pretty big hop, there.
295
00:19:53,109 --> 00:19:54,360
- You got the hop!
- Ha, ha.
296
00:19:54,527 --> 00:19:58,281
Spring training.
It's where we work out our differences.
297
00:20:09,209 --> 00:20:10,627
DUROCHER:
All right!
298
00:20:10,793 --> 00:20:13,963
You boys continue
to pretend you're ballplayers.
299
00:20:14,672 --> 00:20:16,633
- Morning, Leo.
- Good morning, Mr. Rickey.
300
00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:18,760
How are they doing?
301
00:20:18,927 --> 00:20:22,639
They're rusty, but we'll have them
oiled up in no time, ready to go.
302
00:20:22,805 --> 00:20:24,265
Oop.
303
00:20:29,312 --> 00:20:31,022
First day of spring training.
304
00:20:32,106 --> 00:20:34,859
Pittsburgh Courier readers need to know
how it feels.
305
00:20:35,693 --> 00:20:36,986
It's okay.
306
00:20:39,072 --> 00:20:41,074
That's not exactly a headline.
307
00:20:41,866 --> 00:20:43,368
It's all I got.
308
00:20:44,869 --> 00:20:49,499
Look, Jack, right now,
it's just me asking you.
309
00:20:49,666 --> 00:20:52,835
But there's gonna be The New York Times
and the Sporting News.
310
00:20:53,002 --> 00:20:56,339
- You should think about it.
- If they ask something, I'll answer it.
311
00:20:56,506 --> 00:20:58,132
Okay, well here's one for you:
312
00:20:58,299 --> 00:21:00,885
What if one of these white pitchers
throws at you?
313
00:21:04,847 --> 00:21:08,351
Look, they're gonna try to get under
your skin. You need to be ready.
314
00:21:08,518 --> 00:21:10,311
Listen, listen.
315
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,064
You know...
316
00:21:13,231 --> 00:21:15,066
You know how when you're
at the plate...
317
00:21:15,233 --> 00:21:17,694
...you want to see the ball
come in slow?
318
00:21:18,152 --> 00:21:20,989
You want to see these questions
come in slow too.
319
00:21:24,867 --> 00:21:28,705
Hey, Jackie. Jackie, you think you can
make it with these white boys?
320
00:21:28,871 --> 00:21:33,960
Uh, I had no problems with white men
in the service or at UCLA.
321
00:21:34,127 --> 00:21:37,046
What you gonna do if one of these
pitchers throws at your head?
322
00:21:37,213 --> 00:21:38,715
Yeah, Jack.
323
00:21:42,218 --> 00:21:43,886
- I'll duck.
- Heh, that's a good one.
324
00:21:44,053 --> 00:21:46,055
MAN:
Hey, Jack, what's your natural position?
325
00:21:47,348 --> 00:21:49,183
I've been playing shortstop.
326
00:21:49,350 --> 00:21:51,936
Are you after Pee Wee Reese's job?
327
00:21:52,103 --> 00:21:53,730
JACKIE:
Uh...
328
00:21:53,896 --> 00:21:55,732
Reese plays for Brooklyn.
329
00:21:56,232 --> 00:21:57,942
I'm still trying to make Montreal.
330
00:21:58,109 --> 00:22:01,654
Hey, Jack.
Hey, Jack, is this about politics?
331
00:22:01,821 --> 00:22:03,031
It's about getting paid.
332
00:22:03,197 --> 00:22:06,242
MAN: "About getting paid." Hear what he
said? "it's about getting paid."
333
00:22:06,409 --> 00:22:07,535
He's gotta be kidding.
334
00:22:07,744 --> 00:22:09,787
Yeah. Good luck, Hop.
335
00:22:12,248 --> 00:22:15,126
Clay, Jackie Robinson.
336
00:22:15,293 --> 00:22:19,922
Jackie, I'd like you to meet Clay Hopper.
Manager of the Montreal Royals.
337
00:22:20,089 --> 00:22:22,467
Jack. They call me Hop.
338
00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:26,429
Now, we ain't doing much today.
Just tossing the ball around, hitting a few.
339
00:22:26,596 --> 00:22:30,016
You can probably toss with those fellows
over there.
340
00:22:30,183 --> 00:22:32,101
Jorgensen, come here!
341
00:22:40,777 --> 00:22:43,780
You're not playing him at shortstop,
huh, Clay?
342
00:22:43,946 --> 00:22:47,533
Oh, he's getting by on a quick release.
His arm's too weak for short.
343
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:50,078
I think second base is his spot.
344
00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:52,413
I agree.
345
00:22:54,374 --> 00:22:55,708
Clay...
346
00:22:56,376 --> 00:23:01,005
...I need you to get the other players
to act like gentlemen around him.
347
00:23:01,172 --> 00:23:03,049
Treat him like they would
any other teammate.
348
00:23:03,216 --> 00:23:04,300
Hmm, mm-hm.
349
00:23:04,467 --> 00:23:08,096
- Be natural, work together in harmony.
- Mm-hm.
350
00:23:11,307 --> 00:23:12,308
[GRUNTS]
351
00:23:14,268 --> 00:23:15,645
[UMPIRE YELLS THEN RICKEY CHUCKLES]
352
00:23:15,812 --> 00:23:18,231
MAN 1:
Got the double up!
353
00:23:18,398 --> 00:23:21,109
That was practically superhuman.
354
00:23:21,275 --> 00:23:23,152
Heh, "superhuman"?
355
00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:25,405
I mean, don't get carried away,
Mr. Rickey.
356
00:23:25,571 --> 00:23:27,573
That's still a nigger out there.
357
00:23:31,702 --> 00:23:35,164
Come on in now. Grab a bat. Who's up?
358
00:23:35,623 --> 00:23:37,583
MAN 2:
Nice job, boys!
359
00:23:40,211 --> 00:23:44,924
Clay, I realize that attitude
is part of your cultural heritage.
360
00:23:45,091 --> 00:23:49,679
That you practically nursed race prejudice
at your mother's breast...
361
00:23:49,846 --> 00:23:51,889
...so I'll let that go.
362
00:23:53,516 --> 00:23:56,310
But I will tell you this:
363
00:23:56,477 --> 00:24:01,149
You will either manage Robinson fairly
and correctly...
364
00:24:01,524 --> 00:24:04,652
...or you, sir, can be unemployed.
365
00:24:08,614 --> 00:24:10,158
Yes, sir.
366
00:24:10,741 --> 00:24:13,369
MAN 3:
Let's go! Come on, guys, let's go!
367
00:24:13,661 --> 00:24:15,913
Way to turn two, Jackie.
368
00:24:25,173 --> 00:24:27,216
BROCK:
Well, well, lookie here.
369
00:24:28,217 --> 00:24:31,387
Jackie, I'm Mr. Brock.
370
00:24:32,597 --> 00:24:34,640
Welcome to Sanford, Florida.
371
00:24:34,807 --> 00:24:36,642
Thank you for having us.
372
00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:40,188
The day belongs
to decent-minded people.
373
00:24:41,939 --> 00:24:44,400
- Wendell, always good to see you.
- You as well.
374
00:24:44,567 --> 00:24:47,069
Yeah, well, the wife's inside cooking.
375
00:24:47,236 --> 00:24:50,198
You know what she asked me?
She asked me this morning:
376
00:24:50,740 --> 00:24:53,034
What do you serve when a hero's coming
to dinner?
377
00:24:53,201 --> 00:24:56,412
Heh, urn, Mr. Brock, I'm just a ballplayer.
378
00:24:56,579 --> 00:24:57,705
Oh, no, no.
379
00:24:57,872 --> 00:25:01,834
You tell that to all the little colored boys
playing baseball in Florida today.
380
00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:05,296
To them, you a hero.
381
00:25:18,142 --> 00:25:20,269
MAN 1: Here you go, ma'am.
RACHAEL: Thank you, sir.
382
00:25:20,978 --> 00:25:22,063
Here you go.
383
00:25:22,230 --> 00:25:24,732
MAN 2:
Scorecards, get your scorecards here!
384
00:25:26,984 --> 00:25:29,779
Scorecards here!
Get your scorecards here!
385
00:25:30,947 --> 00:25:33,783
Ed! You stay where I can see you.
386
00:25:33,950 --> 00:25:36,619
Mom, I'm 10 years old!
387
00:25:36,786 --> 00:25:38,454
Come on.
388
00:25:41,332 --> 00:25:44,460
MAN 3 [ON PA]: Welcome to the inner-league
game between the Brooklyn Dodgers...
389
00:25:44,627 --> 00:25:47,213
...and their Minor League affiliate,
the Montreal Royals.
390
00:25:48,589 --> 00:25:49,674
[CROWD CHEERING]
391
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,676
MAN 4:
There you go, Pee Wee!
392
00:25:51,842 --> 00:25:53,803
MAN 3 [ON PA]:
Now coming to bat for the Royals...
393
00:25:53,970 --> 00:25:56,138
...number nine, Jackie Robinson.
394
00:25:56,305 --> 00:25:57,890
[CROWD BOOING]
395
00:25:58,057 --> 00:25:59,475
MAN 5:
Get out of here!
396
00:25:59,642 --> 00:26:01,978
Stand up tall, Jackie!
397
00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:04,564
MAN 6:
Get out, nigger!
398
00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:07,316
Jack's got a thick skin. He'll be okay.
399
00:26:09,026 --> 00:26:10,611
Well, how about you?
400
00:26:11,487 --> 00:26:12,989
I better get one in a hurry, heh.
401
00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:14,615
MAN 7:
Have pride, Jackie!
402
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:23,082
Look. Look, there he is,
black as the ace of spades!
403
00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:26,627
Hey, nigger boy!
What are you doing playing baseball?
404
00:26:26,794 --> 00:26:28,045
MAN 8:
Hit a home run, Jackie!
405
00:26:28,212 --> 00:26:32,008
Please, God, let Jackie show them
what we can do.
406
00:26:33,342 --> 00:26:35,469
- Please.
MAN 9: All right, now, Jackie Robinson!
407
00:26:35,636 --> 00:26:36,762
WOMAN:
Let's go, Jackie!
408
00:26:54,614 --> 00:26:56,073
MAN 10:
Come on, Jackie!
409
00:26:57,325 --> 00:26:58,367
UMPIRE:
Ball!
410
00:26:58,534 --> 00:26:59,535
[CROWD CHEERING]
411
00:27:06,792 --> 00:27:07,877
[BOOING]
412
00:27:08,044 --> 00:27:11,213
They're giving you a chance!
Do something about it!
413
00:27:14,383 --> 00:27:16,886
MAN 11: Let's go, Higbe!
Shut him down right here!
414
00:27:18,721 --> 00:27:20,264
UMPIRE:
Ball!
415
00:27:23,976 --> 00:27:25,978
Durocher,
tell him to throw some strikes!
416
00:27:26,145 --> 00:27:27,229
Let him hit!
417
00:27:27,396 --> 00:27:28,898
Come on now, come on now!
418
00:27:29,065 --> 00:27:31,359
MAN 12:
He ain't scared of you, Higbe!
419
00:27:32,234 --> 00:27:33,861
MAN 13:
You show him, Jackie!
420
00:27:36,072 --> 00:27:37,156
UMPIRE:
Ball!
421
00:27:37,323 --> 00:27:38,366
[CROWD CHEERS]
422
00:27:38,908 --> 00:27:41,952
Come on, rook.
Ain't you gonna swing at something?
423
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:46,248
Higbe, just settle down. Let's get
the ball over the plate now, all right?
424
00:27:53,798 --> 00:27:55,383
UMPIRE:
Ball four!
425
00:27:57,593 --> 00:28:00,137
MAN 14:
You stink, Higbe!
426
00:28:00,888 --> 00:28:02,682
[ALL CHEERING]
427
00:28:02,848 --> 00:28:04,225
It's just a walk.
428
00:28:04,642 --> 00:28:06,686
Ha, ha, who can blame them?
429
00:28:07,436 --> 00:28:08,479
MAN 15:
Good job, Jackie.
430
00:28:08,646 --> 00:28:11,607
MAN 3 [ON PA]:
Now coming to bat for the Royals...
431
00:28:11,774 --> 00:28:13,609
...number 3, Spider Jorgensen.
432
00:28:18,239 --> 00:28:19,323
MAN 16:
Let's go, Hig!
433
00:28:19,490 --> 00:28:21,283
All right, Higbe, shake it off, there.
434
00:28:21,450 --> 00:28:23,786
We got this, boy. We got this, boy.
Let's do it.
435
00:28:27,373 --> 00:28:30,292
Well, throw it over there!
What are you waiting for?
436
00:28:32,128 --> 00:28:33,713
UMPIRE:
Safe!
437
00:28:33,879 --> 00:28:35,214
[CHEERING]
438
00:28:35,381 --> 00:28:36,966
MAN 17:
Come on, pop up, Jack.
439
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,683
[SIGHS]
440
00:29:00,156 --> 00:29:01,782
UMPIRE:
Ball one!
441
00:29:02,742 --> 00:29:04,076
[UMPIRE YELLS THEN CROWD CHEERING]
442
00:29:04,243 --> 00:29:05,828
Yeah, Jackie!
443
00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:20,801
MAN 18:
Heads up, Jack. Get the sign.
444
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:33,939
BRAGAN: He's going!
MAN 19: Runner! Runner!
445
00:29:34,148 --> 00:29:35,691
BRAGAN: Come on, move!
MAN 20: Get back!
446
00:29:35,858 --> 00:29:37,610
HIGBE: Get him, Schultzy!
Get him, Schultzy!
447
00:29:39,695 --> 00:29:41,030
SCHULTZ:
Here we go!
448
00:29:41,197 --> 00:29:42,990
STANKY: What are you gonna do now?
Come on!
449
00:29:43,157 --> 00:29:44,325
BRAGAN:
Outside! Outside!
450
00:29:44,492 --> 00:29:47,203
STANKY: On your horse, Bragan!
On your horse! Outside!
451
00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:50,039
- Now!
BRAGAN: Go, Stanky! Go, Stank!
452
00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:53,709
Ooh.
453
00:29:53,876 --> 00:29:54,919
[CHEERING]
454
00:29:56,337 --> 00:29:58,547
Hey, all right!
455
00:30:34,124 --> 00:30:36,252
Hey! Don't you know nothing?
456
00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:38,879
You're supposed to get back
when I step off.
457
00:30:44,301 --> 00:30:47,513
What are you doing? You can dance
with him later! Focus on the plate!
458
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,017
Come on, now! Work the plate!
Work the plate!
459
00:31:00,526 --> 00:31:04,113
Come on, Higbe, don't worry about
the runner. Get this guy at the plate.
460
00:31:07,992 --> 00:31:09,201
UMPIRE:
Timeout!
461
00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:10,494
That's a balk.
462
00:31:10,661 --> 00:31:12,788
Runner, take home.
463
00:31:14,081 --> 00:31:15,958
[CHEERING]
464
00:31:16,709 --> 00:31:18,252
Son of a bitch.
465
00:31:22,339 --> 00:31:24,300
He didn't come to play, he came to kill.
466
00:31:24,466 --> 00:31:25,509
[WHISTLES]
467
00:31:27,428 --> 00:31:29,430
What happened? I don't understand.
468
00:31:29,597 --> 00:31:33,726
The pitcher dropped the ball. It's a balk.
Therefore, Jackie scores.
469
00:31:33,893 --> 00:31:35,477
But he didn't do anything.
470
00:31:35,644 --> 00:31:39,857
Oh, Mama, yes, he did.
He discombobulated the man.
471
00:31:40,024 --> 00:31:42,359
He-- What?
472
00:31:42,985 --> 00:31:44,820
BROCK:
Phew.
473
00:31:46,155 --> 00:31:48,407
I hope Jackie's sleeping all right.
474
00:31:48,657 --> 00:31:52,661
Chasing baseballs in the sun all day?
Put me in my grave.
475
00:31:52,828 --> 00:31:54,163
[BOTH LAUGH]
476
00:31:58,042 --> 00:32:01,921
- How they treating him out there?
- Well, they treat him okay.
477
00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:04,256
As far as I can see.
478
00:32:10,137 --> 00:32:13,390
Well, you can find good people
every place.
479
00:32:14,934 --> 00:32:17,102
Even here in Sanford.
480
00:32:20,314 --> 00:32:21,690
Is he in there?
481
00:32:24,276 --> 00:32:26,654
Who is it that you're looking for?
482
00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:28,447
The Nigra ballplayer.
483
00:32:28,614 --> 00:32:30,324
Is he in there?
484
00:32:35,537 --> 00:32:37,623
He's asleep right now.
485
00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:40,167
Maybe you wanna come back
in the morning.
486
00:32:40,334 --> 00:32:41,377
[CHUCKLES]
487
00:32:41,543 --> 00:32:43,754
No, I ain't coming back.
488
00:32:44,088 --> 00:32:46,382
Other fellas is coming.
489
00:32:47,341 --> 00:32:50,803
And they ain't happy
that he's staying here in Sanford...
490
00:32:50,970 --> 00:32:53,931
...playing ball with white boys.
491
00:32:56,141 --> 00:33:00,270
- Now, let me tell you something, sir.
- No, you listen to me, young man.
492
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:03,816
You best just skedaddle on out of here.
493
00:33:04,108 --> 00:33:07,611
Because if they get here
and he's still here...
494
00:33:08,028 --> 00:33:09,655
...there's gonna be trouble.
495
00:33:10,364 --> 00:33:11,907
You understand?
496
00:33:12,366 --> 00:33:13,784
Trouble.
497
00:33:14,326 --> 00:33:16,912
Trouble, trouble, trouble.
498
00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:18,080
[MAN CHUCKLES]
499
00:33:20,874 --> 00:33:22,292
Mr. Brock.
500
00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:26,630
May I please use your telephone?
501
00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:29,299
Wake him up and get him out of there.
502
00:33:29,466 --> 00:33:34,179
Put him in the car and, uh, start driving
to Daytona Beach. Now.
503
00:33:34,388 --> 00:33:36,849
Uh, oh, and, uh, Wendell...
504
00:33:37,016 --> 00:33:43,397
...under no circumstances are you
to tell him what this is about, uh...
505
00:33:44,064 --> 00:33:47,776
I don't want him getting it in his head...
506
00:33:47,943 --> 00:33:49,945
...to stay there and fight.
507
00:34:22,770 --> 00:34:24,146
MAN 1:
Where's he at?
508
00:34:24,313 --> 00:34:27,066
MAN 2: I don't know.
Think he's getting another one.
509
00:34:27,483 --> 00:34:29,735
MAN 1: Hey, Jim. You escorting
that boy out of town?
510
00:34:29,902 --> 00:34:30,986
MAN 2:
Hey, look at this.
511
00:34:31,153 --> 00:34:32,780
What's that?
512
00:34:32,946 --> 00:34:34,364
[COUNTRY MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
513
00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:38,702
What's he want'?
514
00:34:41,872 --> 00:34:43,832
[TIRES SCREECHING AND HORN HONKING]
515
00:34:43,999 --> 00:34:45,667
Hey, hey, he)”
516
00:34:47,169 --> 00:34:49,171
[SIGHS]
517
00:34:49,671 --> 00:34:51,173
What the hell, Wendell?
518
00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:53,759
A man came by while you was asleep.
519
00:34:53,926 --> 00:34:55,469
He said more men were coming.
520
00:34:55,636 --> 00:34:57,179
It might have been those fellas.
521
00:34:57,346 --> 00:35:00,015
Mr. Rickey said to get you to Daytona
Beach ASAP.
522
00:35:01,058 --> 00:35:02,518
Why didn't you say so?
523
00:35:02,684 --> 00:35:06,522
Mr. Rickey was afraid you wouldn't leave.
You'd want to stay there and fight.
524
00:35:06,688 --> 00:35:09,149
[LAUGHING]
525
00:35:09,316 --> 00:35:11,777
Man, what in the hell
are you laughing at?
526
00:35:11,944 --> 00:35:15,114
I thought you woke me
because I was cut from the team.
527
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,741
[JACKIE LAUGHING]
528
00:35:21,161 --> 00:35:23,413
You got a strange sense of humor, man.
529
00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:26,542
[CROWD APPLAUDING AND CHEERING]
530
00:35:29,795 --> 00:35:33,382
MAN 1: Two, two, two! Take him back.
Throw him out now!
531
00:35:35,801 --> 00:35:36,844
UMPIRE:
Safe!
532
00:35:37,010 --> 00:35:39,012
[CHEERING]
533
00:35:42,432 --> 00:35:44,351
MAN 2:
You're too fast for them, Jackie!
534
00:35:44,518 --> 00:35:46,603
All right, way to go. Way to go, boy!
535
00:35:46,770 --> 00:35:48,438
MAN 3:
Get that nigger off the field!
536
00:35:48,605 --> 00:35:51,316
Come on, Spider, bring him in. Let's go.
537
00:36:02,286 --> 00:36:03,495
MAN 4:
We got him.
538
00:36:11,336 --> 00:36:13,213
MAN 5:
Four! Four! Four!
539
00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:15,257
MAN 3: No out!
MAN 4: He's running through!
540
00:36:16,258 --> 00:36:17,718
[GRUNTS]
541
00:36:17,885 --> 00:36:19,303
Safe!
542
00:36:19,469 --> 00:36:21,305
[CHEERING]
543
00:36:21,471 --> 00:36:24,016
OFFICER:
Get off the field.
544
00:36:24,183 --> 00:36:27,561
- What?
- Get off the field. Now.
545
00:36:28,437 --> 00:36:31,231
- Why?
- Because it's against the law, that's why.
546
00:36:31,398 --> 00:36:33,567
No nigger's gonna play with white boys.
547
00:36:33,734 --> 00:36:35,944
Now you get off the field, or go to jail.
548
00:36:36,111 --> 00:36:38,697
You use that thing,
you better hit me between the eyes.
549
00:36:38,864 --> 00:36:41,116
Hey, hold on, now. What'd he do wrong?
550
00:36:41,283 --> 00:36:44,411
We ain't having no Nigras mix
with white boys in this town.
551
00:36:44,578 --> 00:36:48,081
Y'all ain't up-states now.
They gotta keep separate.
552
00:36:48,290 --> 00:36:51,627
The Brooklyn Dodgers
ain't changing our way of living.
553
00:36:52,377 --> 00:36:53,754
Where y'all from, anyhow?
554
00:36:53,921 --> 00:36:55,464
I'm from Greenwood, Mississippi.
555
00:36:55,631 --> 00:36:58,884
Ha, ha, hell, boy,
you ought to know better.
556
00:36:59,176 --> 00:37:02,304
Now, you tell your Nigra I said to git.
557
00:37:04,306 --> 00:37:05,307
RACHAEL'.
What did you do?
558
00:37:06,433 --> 00:37:07,809
Oh, I said:
559
00:37:07,976 --> 00:37:12,189
"Okay, skipper.
I'm a-gitting, I'm a-gitting, I'm a-gitting.
560
00:37:12,356 --> 00:37:14,274
- You don't want no trouble."
- You did not!
561
00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:16,860
- Yes, I did. Yes, I did.
- Ha, ha.
562
00:37:17,319 --> 00:37:19,321
Then I took a cold shower.
563
00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:21,531
We lost two to one.
564
00:37:22,824 --> 00:37:23,909
Aw.
565
00:37:24,076 --> 00:37:27,037
Okay, skipper. I'm a-gitting, I'm a-gitting.
566
00:37:27,204 --> 00:37:28,247
[BOTH LAUGHING]
567
00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:29,998
Oh, no, you not getting away from me.
568
00:37:30,666 --> 00:37:32,209
Jack.
569
00:37:34,878 --> 00:37:36,171
Get back, Rae.
570
00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:38,257
I want you to know something.
571
00:37:39,633 --> 00:37:40,926
Yeah, what's that?
572
00:37:42,678 --> 00:37:45,472
I want you to know I'm pulling for you
to make good.
573
00:37:45,639 --> 00:37:48,016
A lot of folks around here
feel the same way.
574
00:37:49,226 --> 00:37:52,479
If a man's got the goods,
he deserves a fair chance, that's all.
575
00:37:54,690 --> 00:37:56,191
Ma'am.
576
00:38:09,705 --> 00:38:11,373
JACKIE:
You wanted to see me, Mr. Rickey?
577
00:38:13,333 --> 00:38:15,085
Bermuda grass grows so well here.
578
00:38:15,252 --> 00:38:18,547
I wish we could get it to grow like this up
in Brooklyn.
579
00:38:20,299 --> 00:38:21,717
Yeah.
580
00:38:23,427 --> 00:38:25,345
I like the way it smells
when they mow it.
581
00:38:25,512 --> 00:38:28,181
Heh, me too.
582
00:38:29,558 --> 00:38:31,059
Jackie...
583
00:38:32,728 --> 00:38:35,022
...it is my pleasure...
584
00:38:35,188 --> 00:38:39,401
...to tell you that you have earned a place
with the Montreal Royals.
585
00:38:41,028 --> 00:38:45,574
When they head north on Tuesday
for opening day with Jersey City...
586
00:38:45,741 --> 00:38:47,909
...you'll be on the train.
587
00:38:48,493 --> 00:38:50,078
[CHUCKLES]
588
00:38:51,455 --> 00:38:52,831
I won't let you down.
589
00:38:52,998 --> 00:38:54,416
Yeah, I know you won't.
590
00:38:56,918 --> 00:39:00,589
If you don't mind,
I'd like to go tell my wife.
591
00:39:00,756 --> 00:39:03,342
Ah, you give her my regards.
592
00:39:03,508 --> 00:39:04,926
[JACKIE CHUCKLES]
593
00:39:10,557 --> 00:39:11,600
Mr. Rickey?
594
00:39:14,561 --> 00:39:16,271
Why are you doing this?
595
00:39:17,606 --> 00:39:19,274
[RICKEY SIGHS]
596
00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,112
I'm in the baseball business.
597
00:39:25,155 --> 00:39:28,283
With you and the other Negro players
I hope to bring up next year...
598
00:39:28,450 --> 00:39:31,953
...I can put together a team
that can win the World Series.
599
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,123
And the World Series means money.
600
00:39:35,791 --> 00:39:38,001
You believe that, don't you?
601
00:39:39,753 --> 00:39:42,089
I don't think it matters what I believe.
602
00:39:43,298 --> 00:39:44,925
Only what I do.
603
00:39:45,258 --> 00:39:46,635
Agreed.
604
00:39:47,469 --> 00:39:49,096
Therefore...
605
00:39:49,304 --> 00:39:52,474
...I want you to worry those pitchers
till they come apart.
606
00:39:52,641 --> 00:39:54,643
Run as you see fit.
607
00:39:54,810 --> 00:39:57,354
Sometimes you'll get caught,
but that doesn't matter.
608
00:39:57,521 --> 00:39:59,648
Ty Cobb got caught plenty.
609
00:39:59,815 --> 00:40:02,484
You just run those bases
like the devil himself.
610
00:40:02,651 --> 00:40:05,821
Put the natural fear of God in them.
611
00:40:08,156 --> 00:40:09,533
Yes, sir.
612
00:40:10,909 --> 00:40:15,247
MAN [ON PA]: Train for Atlanta
and points north now boarding.
613
00:40:15,414 --> 00:40:18,417
Train for Atlanta and points
north now boarding.
614
00:40:18,583 --> 00:40:20,001
There he is.
615
00:40:27,551 --> 00:40:29,052
All aboard!
616
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,432
Young man.
617
00:41:11,553 --> 00:41:12,596
[WHISTLE BLOWS]
618
00:41:26,526 --> 00:41:28,612
I can still hear him.
619
00:41:31,031 --> 00:41:33,241
I can still hear him!
620
00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:36,411
[BAND PLAYING
"THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"]
621
00:41:45,086 --> 00:41:47,088
[ALL CHEERING]
622
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,260
Play ball!
623
00:41:53,428 --> 00:41:56,598
MAN [ON PA]: And now the lineup
of the visiting Montreal Royals.
624
00:41:56,765 --> 00:42:00,268
Batting first, playing center field,
Marv Rackley.
625
00:42:00,435 --> 00:42:04,439
Batting second, playing second base,
Jackie Robinson.
626
00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:07,067
Batting third, playing left field,
George Shuba.
627
00:42:07,234 --> 00:42:08,777
Hey, you okay?
628
00:42:09,778 --> 00:42:11,404
I think I might be sick.
629
00:42:11,571 --> 00:42:12,697
Excuse me, Wendell.
630
00:42:14,074 --> 00:42:17,327
MAN:
Popcorn! Get your popcorn!
631
00:42:26,294 --> 00:42:27,921
You all right, honey?
632
00:42:28,838 --> 00:42:30,632
I'm sick.
633
00:42:30,966 --> 00:42:32,759
Don't know why.
634
00:42:35,095 --> 00:42:37,347
Mm, thank you.
635
00:42:41,977 --> 00:42:44,312
When did you have your monthly last?
636
00:42:50,860 --> 00:42:52,779
It may be that you're pregnant.
637
00:43:03,290 --> 00:43:08,336
MAN [ON PA]: Now batting for Montreal,
number 9, Jackie Robinson.
638
00:43:14,342 --> 00:43:15,844
[CLEARS THROAT]
639
00:43:16,011 --> 00:43:17,304
[SIGHS]
640
00:43:17,470 --> 00:43:19,014
MAN 1:
Come on, Jack!
641
00:43:20,307 --> 00:43:21,850
Come on, Jackie.
642
00:43:22,017 --> 00:43:24,603
- Come on, batter.
MAN 2: Put it here!
643
00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:40,535
Whoo!
644
00:43:43,038 --> 00:43:47,042
[ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]
645
00:43:56,718 --> 00:43:58,887
He may be superhuman after all.
646
00:44:00,889 --> 00:44:02,682
MAN 3:
Way to go.
647
00:44:18,448 --> 00:44:20,283
Oh, Jack.
648
00:44:21,368 --> 00:44:23,370
[SIGHS]
649
00:44:24,663 --> 00:44:25,705
[BABIES COOING]
650
00:44:34,923 --> 00:44:36,424
Yeah.
651
00:44:40,261 --> 00:44:43,431
My daddy left. Heh.
652
00:44:44,432 --> 00:44:47,268
He left us flat...
653
00:44:48,269 --> 00:44:50,188
...in Cairo, Georgia.
654
00:44:52,232 --> 00:44:55,568
I was only six months older
than you are now.
655
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:01,950
I don't remember him.
656
00:45:05,286 --> 00:45:08,748
Nothing good, nothing bad.
657
00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:11,793
Nothing.
658
00:45:14,713 --> 00:45:16,923
You will remember me.
659
00:45:21,136 --> 00:45:23,847
I'm gonna be here with you
till the day I die.
660
00:45:26,641 --> 00:45:27,642
[PHONE RINGING]
661
00:45:32,981 --> 00:45:34,149
Yeah.
662
00:45:34,315 --> 00:45:36,443
RICKEY [OVER PHONE]:
Hello, Leo.
663
00:45:36,776 --> 00:45:38,653
What are you doing?
664
00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:40,280
I'm bowling.
665
00:45:40,447 --> 00:45:42,157
No, I'm Snowshoeing in the Alps.
666
00:45:42,323 --> 00:45:44,993
I'm trying to sleep, Mr. Rickey.
It's still dark out.
667
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,997
RICKEY: Another spring training
is upon us, Leo. In Panama.
668
00:45:49,622 --> 00:45:53,042
I need to know your attitude
towards Jackie Robinson.
669
00:45:56,045 --> 00:45:58,173
I don't got an attitude toward him.
670
00:45:58,339 --> 00:46:02,677
RICKEY: Eight times in the Bible
we're told to love our neighbor as ourself.
671
00:46:03,344 --> 00:46:05,889
It's one of God's
most repeated commands.
672
00:46:06,055 --> 00:46:08,808
DUROCHER [OVER PHONE]:
Well, I don't know much about the Bible.
673
00:46:08,975 --> 00:46:11,227
But I didn't go to school
just to eat my lunch.
674
00:46:11,394 --> 00:46:13,521
I'll play an elephant
if he can help us win...
675
00:46:13,688 --> 00:46:16,357
...and to make room for him,
I'll send my own brother home.
676
00:46:16,524 --> 00:46:18,151
Oh, what are you gonna do with me?
677
00:46:18,318 --> 00:46:21,529
We're playing for money here.
Winning is the only thing that matters.
678
00:46:21,696 --> 00:46:23,156
[OVER PHONE]
Is he a nice guy?
679
00:46:23,323 --> 00:46:26,493
Well, if by nice you mean soft, no.
680
00:46:26,659 --> 00:46:28,703
No, not particularly.
681
00:46:29,287 --> 00:46:30,705
Good, he can't afford to be.
682
00:46:30,872 --> 00:46:33,833
- Nice guys finish last.
- And what about nice girls?
683
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,169
RICKEY:
So you have no objection to him?
684
00:46:36,336 --> 00:46:38,505
None whatsoever.
Can I go back to sleep now?
685
00:46:38,671 --> 00:46:39,798
- Yes.
DUROCHER: All right.
686
00:46:39,964 --> 00:46:41,549
RICKEY: Oh, and Leo.
- What?
687
00:46:42,175 --> 00:46:46,095
The Bible has a thing or two
to say about adultery as well.
688
00:46:46,554 --> 00:46:49,724
I'm sure it's got a lot to say about a lot.
Good night.
689
00:46:51,392 --> 00:46:53,770
What am I gonna do with you?
690
00:46:53,937 --> 00:46:55,605
I thought you knew.
691
00:46:57,232 --> 00:46:59,692
You gonna take care of your mama?
692
00:46:59,943 --> 00:47:02,695
No? You better.
693
00:47:02,862 --> 00:47:04,405
Mm-hm.
694
00:47:04,572 --> 00:47:06,407
You gonna take care of my mama?
695
00:47:06,574 --> 00:47:07,742
Come here, baby.
696
00:47:07,909 --> 00:47:10,119
- There you go.
- Come here, baby, I got you.
697
00:47:19,087 --> 00:47:20,880
Promise me you'll write?
698
00:47:21,756 --> 00:47:24,092
When have I ever not written?
699
00:47:27,095 --> 00:47:31,266
I want you to know I'm there for you,
even if it's words on paper.
700
00:47:32,058 --> 00:47:33,726
Rae...
701
00:47:34,143 --> 00:47:35,937
...you're in my heart.
702
00:47:39,107 --> 00:47:40,608
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
703
00:47:42,277 --> 00:47:45,905
You're getting close now, and the closer
you get, the worse they'll be.
704
00:47:47,866 --> 00:47:50,076
Don't let them get to you.
705
00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:52,453
I won't.
706
00:47:54,163 --> 00:47:56,374
God built me to last.
707
00:47:57,333 --> 00:47:58,418
Hmm.
708
00:47:59,294 --> 00:48:04,090
I'll see you in Brooklyn in eight weeks, oh.
709
00:48:04,966 --> 00:48:07,176
It might be Montreal.
710
00:48:12,140 --> 00:48:14,142
It's gonna be Brooklyn.
711
00:48:15,768 --> 00:48:17,395
I know it is.
712
00:48:27,989 --> 00:48:31,659
Why do you think Rickey's got us playing
spring games here in Panama, huh?
713
00:48:32,493 --> 00:48:34,495
He wants us to get used
to Negro crowds.
714
00:48:34,662 --> 00:48:36,623
He wants more of them
than there are of us.
715
00:48:36,789 --> 00:48:40,001
And he's hoping it'll make us more
comfortable being around Robinson.
716
00:48:40,168 --> 00:48:41,920
HIGBE:
Ahem. All right, ahem.
717
00:48:42,211 --> 00:48:44,547
Listen up. This is what I got.
718
00:48:45,798 --> 00:48:49,218
"We, the undersigned Brooklyn Dodgers,
will not play ball...
719
00:48:49,385 --> 00:48:51,262
...on the same field as
Jackie Robinson."
720
00:48:51,429 --> 00:48:52,597
That's right.
721
00:48:54,223 --> 00:48:57,185
Kirby Higbe.
722
00:48:57,810 --> 00:48:59,854
- I'll sign that.
- All right.
723
00:49:00,855 --> 00:49:02,982
Brooklyn Dodger Declaration
of Independence.
724
00:49:03,149 --> 00:49:04,359
That's right.
725
00:49:06,527 --> 00:49:08,071
Give me that.
726
00:49:16,496 --> 00:49:17,747
[CLEARS THROAT]
727
00:49:17,914 --> 00:49:20,583
- Y'all sure about this?
- You wanna play ball with a nigger?
728
00:49:22,085 --> 00:49:23,503
[SIGHS]
729
00:49:28,716 --> 00:49:30,051
MAN 1:
Skip's got you out in left?
730
00:49:30,218 --> 00:49:31,970
MAN 2: Yeah, for today.
MAN 3: Hey, Robinson.
731
00:49:34,514 --> 00:49:37,558
- What do you want me to do with this?
- Well, you play first base.
732
00:49:37,725 --> 00:49:39,769
Coach, I never played first base
in my life.
733
00:49:39,978 --> 00:49:41,562
Well, it's like this:
734
00:49:41,729 --> 00:49:45,566
Brooklyn's got a solid second baseman.
We got Pee Wee Reese over at short.
735
00:49:45,858 --> 00:49:47,568
But first base is up for grabs.
736
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:52,907
STANKY:
Come on in.
737
00:49:54,283 --> 00:49:56,828
HIGBE: Hey, Stank.
- What's going on?
738
00:49:58,037 --> 00:50:00,540
Well, we got a petition going on, Stank.
739
00:50:00,790 --> 00:50:03,584
Keep Robinson in Montreal.
Where he belongs.
740
00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:04,794
[SCOFFS]
741
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,089
Can't sign now, boys.
742
00:50:08,423 --> 00:50:10,258
I'm indisposed.
743
00:50:10,717 --> 00:50:12,760
How about I just catch up
with you later?
744
00:50:14,929 --> 00:50:17,557
SUKEFORTH:
That ball's coming in a lot faster, Jack.
745
00:50:19,767 --> 00:50:21,728
The angle's a lot different in second.
746
00:50:22,145 --> 00:50:25,148
Take all the time in the world on second.
You're getting it.
747
00:50:26,566 --> 00:50:28,067
[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]
748
00:50:33,531 --> 00:50:36,576
That's like you have a suitcase on your
hand there, Jack.
749
00:50:36,743 --> 00:50:40,288
The new glove, it's the big one there,
Jack. You'll get used to it.
750
00:50:47,253 --> 00:50:48,838
Give me the pen.
751
00:50:53,676 --> 00:50:57,764
You know Mr. Rickey wants you
to play conspicuous baseball.
752
00:51:00,349 --> 00:51:04,771
To be so good that the Dodgers demand
to have you on their team.
753
00:51:06,189 --> 00:51:07,231
That's it.
754
00:51:07,774 --> 00:51:09,817
So I thought about it for a while...
755
00:51:09,984 --> 00:51:12,987
...and I looked up "conspicuous"
in the dictionary.
756
00:51:17,450 --> 00:51:20,495
It means "to attract notice or attention."
757
00:51:26,501 --> 00:51:28,002
Conspicuous.
758
00:51:28,169 --> 00:51:33,007
Look, it's like this: I got a wife,
I got a baby and I got no money.
759
00:51:33,174 --> 00:51:35,843
So I don't wanna step in anything, $0...
760
00:51:36,010 --> 00:51:38,721
You want to skip me on this one, Dix.
I'm not interested.
761
00:51:38,888 --> 00:51:41,015
- What if they put him at shortstop?
- Exactly.
762
00:51:41,182 --> 00:51:42,308
That's right, Pee Wee.
763
00:51:42,475 --> 00:51:44,602
Well, I figure if he's man enough
to take my job...
764
00:51:44,769 --> 00:51:46,020
-...he deserves it.
- Ugh.
765
00:51:46,187 --> 00:51:47,522
Oh, the hell he does.
766
00:51:47,688 --> 00:51:51,192
He does not have the ice water
in his veins to play big league baseball.
767
00:51:51,359 --> 00:51:53,444
- That's right.
- So let him show what he's got.
768
00:51:53,611 --> 00:51:56,155
Robinson can either play or he can't.
769
00:51:56,322 --> 00:51:58,199
It'll all take care of itself.
770
00:51:58,366 --> 00:51:59,742
SUKEFORTH:
It's gonna out you off.
771
00:51:59,909 --> 00:52:01,869
So right foot on the bag when it comes.
772
00:52:02,036 --> 00:52:05,206
There you go. That's nice, Jackie.
Nice, Jackie. Pop that foot off.
773
00:52:05,373 --> 00:52:08,709
When that ball comes, that right foot,
just pop that.
774
00:52:08,876 --> 00:52:11,045
Pop that--
Don't leave that foot on there.
775
00:52:11,212 --> 00:52:13,089
[PHONE RINGS]
776
00:52:15,967 --> 00:52:17,301
[SIGHS]
777
00:52:18,136 --> 00:52:19,679
Yes, Mr. Rickey.
778
00:52:19,846 --> 00:52:22,932
RICKEY [OVER PHONE]: Have
our friends in the press gone to sleep?
779
00:52:23,141 --> 00:52:26,769
We are the only people awake
on this entire isthmus, Mr. Rickey.
780
00:52:26,936 --> 00:52:30,148
RICKEY:
About this, uh, petition, Leo.
781
00:52:30,857 --> 00:52:35,903
I think a deliberate violation
of the law deserves...
782
00:52:36,404 --> 00:52:39,365
...a little show of force.
783
00:52:39,949 --> 00:52:42,535
I leave it to you, Leo.
784
00:52:43,452 --> 00:52:44,495
Good night.
785
00:52:45,246 --> 00:52:47,039
Good night, Mr. Rickey.
786
00:52:49,041 --> 00:52:50,084
[MOSQUITO BUZZES]
787
00:52:52,587 --> 00:52:56,716
- So, what are we doing here in the night?
- Leo said to get everybody together.
788
00:52:56,883 --> 00:52:58,843
- I was sleeping good.
- Down in the kitchen?
789
00:52:59,010 --> 00:53:01,596
Wake up now, ladies! Wake up!
790
00:53:07,268 --> 00:53:11,314
It has come to my attention that some of
you fellas don't wanna play with Robinson.
791
00:53:15,902 --> 00:53:21,616
That you've even got a petition you've
drawn up and you're all going to sign.
792
00:53:21,782 --> 00:53:23,784
You know what you can do
with your petition.
793
00:53:23,951 --> 00:53:25,453
You can wipe your asses with it.
794
00:53:25,620 --> 00:53:27,788
- Oh, come on, Leo.
- Come on, what?
795
00:53:27,955 --> 00:53:31,751
Ballplayers gotta live together,
shower together.
796
00:53:31,918 --> 00:53:33,961
It ain't fair to force him on us like this.
797
00:53:34,128 --> 00:53:35,796
Besides, I got a hardware store--
798
00:53:35,963 --> 00:53:40,343
Screw your hardware store, Dix!
And if you don't like it, screw you.
799
00:53:40,509 --> 00:53:43,763
Mr. Rickey will be happy
to make other arrangements for you.
800
00:53:50,978 --> 00:53:54,649
Now, I don't care if he is yellow,
or black...
801
00:53:54,815 --> 00:53:56,817
...or has stripes like a zebra.
802
00:53:58,486 --> 00:54:03,032
If Robinson can help us win,
and everything I have seen says he can...
803
00:54:03,241 --> 00:54:06,661
...then he is gonna play on this ball club!
804
00:54:06,827 --> 00:54:11,958
Like it, lump it, make your minds up to it,
because he's coming!
805
00:54:17,171 --> 00:54:21,342
And think about this
when your heads hit the pillows tonight.
806
00:54:23,302 --> 00:54:24,887
He's only the first, boys.
807
00:54:26,264 --> 00:54:27,765
Only the first.
808
00:54:28,391 --> 00:54:30,893
There are more coming right behind him
every day...
809
00:54:31,060 --> 00:54:34,355
...and they have got talent
and they wanna play.
810
00:54:35,022 --> 00:54:38,025
Oh, yeah, they are gonna
come scratching and diving.
811
00:54:38,192 --> 00:54:41,404
So I would forget your petition
and worry about the field...
812
00:54:41,570 --> 00:54:44,991
...because unless you fellas
pay a little more attention to your work...
813
00:54:45,157 --> 00:54:48,494
...they're gonna run you right
out of the ball park!
814
00:54:52,039 --> 00:54:55,584
RICKEY: Bragan, most of your
teammates have already, uh...
815
00:54:55,751 --> 00:54:59,046
...recanted on this petition nonsense.
816
00:54:59,213 --> 00:55:02,466
Are you really here to tell me you don't
wanna play with Robinson?
817
00:55:02,633 --> 00:55:04,135
Yes, sir.
818
00:55:04,302 --> 00:55:06,721
My friends back in Birmingham
would never forgive me.
819
00:55:06,887 --> 00:55:09,181
Well, what about your friends
in Brooklyn?
820
00:55:09,348 --> 00:55:11,225
I don't know.
821
00:55:11,684 --> 00:55:13,394
Hmm.
822
00:55:13,811 --> 00:55:16,188
Then I will accommodate you.
823
00:55:16,689 --> 00:55:20,526
As long as you give me your word that you
will do your very best for this team...
824
00:55:20,693 --> 00:55:22,737
...until I can work out a trade.
825
00:55:22,903 --> 00:55:26,073
Do you think I would quit on anyone?
I don't quit, sir.
826
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:28,868
Only on yourself, apparently.
827
00:55:38,961 --> 00:55:40,671
Taxi!
828
00:55:41,756 --> 00:55:43,674
Hey, Jack.
829
00:55:47,803 --> 00:55:49,597
You again.
830
00:55:50,264 --> 00:55:52,850
That's right. Me again.
831
00:55:53,642 --> 00:55:55,895
There something wrong with that, Jack?
832
00:55:56,312 --> 00:55:58,064
Where's the car?
833
00:55:59,482 --> 00:56:01,275
Right this way.
834
00:56:16,290 --> 00:56:19,126
They can't keep you in Montreal
for long.
835
00:56:19,752 --> 00:56:23,047
After these exhibition games,
they're gonna have to bring you up.
836
00:56:28,803 --> 00:56:31,472
You don't have two words to rub together,
do you?
837
00:56:37,978 --> 00:56:39,480
[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
838
00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:41,982
[MUSIC STOPS]
839
00:56:45,820 --> 00:56:48,155
You ever wonder why I sit down
behind third base...
840
00:56:48,322 --> 00:56:50,491
...with my typewriter on my knees?
841
00:56:50,658 --> 00:56:52,660
Does that ever cross your mind?
842
00:56:56,831 --> 00:57:00,042
It's because Negro reporters
aren't allowed in the press box.
843
00:57:01,544 --> 00:57:03,003
So guess what?
844
00:57:04,338 --> 00:57:07,716
You, Mr. Robinson, are not the only one
with something at stake here.
845
00:57:12,847 --> 00:57:14,473
I apologize.
846
00:57:17,726 --> 00:57:20,688
You've been there for me through this...
847
00:57:20,855 --> 00:57:23,941
...more than anyone
besides Rae and Mr. Rickey.
848
00:57:26,318 --> 00:57:28,195
But I guess that's what bothers me.
849
00:57:28,863 --> 00:57:30,948
How do you mean?
850
00:57:32,032 --> 00:57:35,369
I don't like needing someone
to be there for me.
851
00:57:37,371 --> 00:57:39,874
I don't like needing anyone for anything.
852
00:57:40,958 --> 00:57:42,835
I never have.
853
00:57:44,462 --> 00:57:47,339
You a hard case, Jack Robinson.
854
00:57:51,469 --> 00:57:53,137
Hey.
855
00:57:53,304 --> 00:57:56,974
Is it okay if I keep driving you, or
should I let you get out so you can walk?
856
00:58:01,061 --> 00:58:02,062
Hmm?
857
00:58:07,026 --> 00:58:08,235
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
858
00:58:13,449 --> 00:58:17,161
"Branch Rickey cannot afford
to upset team chemistry...
859
00:58:17,912 --> 00:58:21,123
...so the only thing keeping Robinson
off the Dodgers now, plainly...
860
00:58:21,290 --> 00:58:23,083
...is the attitude of the players.
861
00:58:23,250 --> 00:58:26,128
If it softens at the sight
of Jackie's skills...
862
00:58:26,295 --> 00:58:30,257
...he'll join the club sometime
between April 10th and April 15th.
863
00:58:30,424 --> 00:58:34,553
Otherwise, Robinson will spend the year
back in Montreal."
864
00:58:35,262 --> 00:58:37,223
Oh, for the love of Pete.
865
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:41,018
He batted .625 in the exhibition games
against them.
866
00:58:41,227 --> 00:58:43,270
Us, them-- Against us!
867
00:58:43,437 --> 00:58:44,480
[PHONE RINGING]
868
00:58:44,647 --> 00:58:46,273
Judas Priest!
869
00:58:47,733 --> 00:58:49,109
Jane Ann, are you out there?
870
00:58:53,864 --> 00:58:55,199
Branch Rickey.
871
00:58:56,242 --> 00:58:59,203
Yes, uh, this is him.
872
00:59:00,454 --> 00:59:02,665
The commissioner of what?
873
00:59:03,666 --> 00:59:05,042
Uh, yes, put him through.
874
00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:07,628
The Commissioner of Baseball.
875
00:59:07,795 --> 00:59:09,797
Branch. Ha! How are you?
876
00:59:09,964 --> 00:59:12,258
RICKEY [OVER PHONE]:
Good, Happy. What can I do for you?
877
00:59:12,466 --> 00:59:15,469
How'd you feel about losing Durocher
for the year, Branch?
878
00:59:16,512 --> 00:59:21,517
Uh, I'm sorry, Happy, heh, I thought you said
lose Durocher for a year.
879
00:59:21,684 --> 00:59:23,352
HAPPY [OVER PHONE]:
I got a notice today...
880
00:59:23,519 --> 00:59:28,482
...from the Catholic Youth Organization
vowing a ban on baseball...
881
00:59:28,649 --> 00:59:31,652
...if Durocher wasn't punished
for his moral looseness.
882
00:59:31,819 --> 00:59:32,820
[SCOFFS]
883
00:59:32,987 --> 00:59:34,280
You're joking.
884
00:59:34,446 --> 00:59:38,993
I wish I were, but it's this business
of this actress out in California.
885
00:59:39,159 --> 00:59:42,746
She's recently divorced
and Durocher's the cause.
886
00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:45,499
They say they may
even be illegally married.
887
00:59:45,666 --> 00:59:46,667
[CHUCKLES]
888
00:59:46,834 --> 00:59:48,502
Now I know you're joking.
889
00:59:48,669 --> 00:59:50,004
I'm not.
890
00:59:50,254 --> 00:59:53,007
Thing of it is, Branch, uh...
891
00:59:53,173 --> 00:59:58,053
...this CYO, they buy a lot of seats,
they draw a lot of water...
892
00:59:58,220 --> 01:00:00,055
...and I can't afford
to ruffle their feathers.
893
01:00:00,222 --> 01:00:01,265
[CHUCKLES]
894
01:00:01,432 --> 01:00:04,518
I'm sorry,
am I mixing my metaphors there?
895
01:00:04,685 --> 01:00:08,689
Happy, you know very well
my organization is entering a tempest.
896
01:00:08,856 --> 01:00:11,233
I need Durocher at the helm.
897
01:00:11,400 --> 01:00:13,819
He's the only man that can handle
this much trouble.
898
01:00:13,986 --> 01:00:15,237
In fact, he loves it.
899
01:00:15,404 --> 01:00:17,197
You're cutting off my right hand!
900
01:00:17,740 --> 01:00:19,450
I have no choice.
901
01:00:19,617 --> 01:00:22,119
I'm gonna sit your manager, Branch.
902
01:00:22,286 --> 01:00:26,165
Leo Durocher is suspended from baseball
for a year.
903
01:00:27,333 --> 01:00:29,501
Happy, you can't do this,
you son of a bitch!
904
01:00:29,668 --> 01:00:30,836
[DIAL TONE]
905
01:00:39,261 --> 01:00:40,971
MAN [OVER RADIO]:
As the search continues...
906
01:00:41,138 --> 01:00:43,390
...to replace Leo Durocher,
I have it on good authority...
907
01:00:43,557 --> 01:00:47,269
...that former Yankee manager Joe
McCarthy has turned down the request...
908
01:00:47,436 --> 01:00:50,397
...of Branch Rickey to take the reins
of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
909
01:00:50,564 --> 01:00:52,775
He is not the only man to say no.
910
01:00:52,941 --> 01:00:55,819
And so with the 1947 season
about to begin...
911
01:00:56,028 --> 01:00:59,073
...the Dodgers
are still without a manager.
912
01:00:59,907 --> 01:01:01,158
[GOSPEL MUSIC
PLAYING OVER RADIO]
913
01:01:02,826 --> 01:01:04,411
Now we present once again Mary--
914
01:01:04,578 --> 01:01:06,121
[RINGING]
915
01:01:16,256 --> 01:01:17,591
Hello?
916
01:01:17,758 --> 01:01:20,761
JANE [OVER PHONE]: Mr. Robinson?
This is Jane Ann in Mr. Rickey's office.
917
01:01:20,928 --> 01:01:22,763
He needs to see you right away.
918
01:01:22,930 --> 01:01:25,557
He has a contract for you to sign.
919
01:01:25,724 --> 01:01:28,185
Contract for me to sign.
920
01:01:28,352 --> 01:01:30,062
Okay.
921
01:01:38,570 --> 01:01:39,947
Hello?
922
01:01:40,114 --> 01:01:41,949
Shoot!
923
01:01:42,783 --> 01:01:44,868
RICKEY: Clyde, you're good.
Jane Ann, get in there.
924
01:01:45,077 --> 01:01:46,120
Come on.
925
01:01:46,286 --> 01:01:49,289
Harold, telegram the press. Say this:
926
01:01:49,498 --> 01:01:52,376
"Today the Brooklyn Dodgers
organization...
927
01:01:52,543 --> 01:01:56,839
...has purchased the contract of Jackie
Robinson from the Montreal Royals.
928
01:01:57,005 --> 01:01:59,049
He will report immediately."
929
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,261
I love you.
930
01:02:46,221 --> 01:02:48,015
I love you.
931
01:03:18,212 --> 01:03:19,213
[CHATTERING]
932
01:03:21,173 --> 01:03:22,883
MAN:
Lookie here.
933
01:03:27,888 --> 01:03:32,142
Hey, you're looking for your locker,
aren't you, son? Follow me.
934
01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:38,941
I'm Hermanski. Welcome to Brooklyn.
935
01:03:39,107 --> 01:03:40,651
Greetings.
936
01:03:40,818 --> 01:03:42,444
Hey, man. Ralph Branca.
937
01:03:42,611 --> 01:03:43,695
Greetings.
938
01:03:43,862 --> 01:03:45,864
Greetings. Okay.
939
01:03:49,910 --> 01:03:52,287
I just found out today. The best I can do.
940
01:03:52,454 --> 01:03:55,123
I'll get you straightened out tomorrow.
Okay?
941
01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:57,209
It's okay.
942
01:04:51,805 --> 01:04:53,307
[CROWD APPLAUDING AND CHEERING]
943
01:04:54,975 --> 01:04:57,352
MAN 1:
Robinson, can we get a photo?
944
01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:01,064
MAN 2: Robinson, turn around!
Come on, come on, Mr. Robinson.
945
01:05:01,690 --> 01:05:03,317
MAN 3:
Good luck, sir!
946
01:05:16,622 --> 01:05:18,790
MAN 4: Get out of here!
MAN 5: We don't need you!
947
01:05:18,957 --> 01:05:20,751
Get out of here!
948
01:05:22,961 --> 01:05:25,631
Yeah! There he is!
949
01:05:34,431 --> 01:05:38,226
MAN 6 [SINGING]:
Oh, say can you see
950
01:05:38,393 --> 01:05:42,272
By the dawn's early light
951
01:05:42,648 --> 01:05:46,610
What so proudly we hailed
952
01:05:46,777 --> 01:05:50,697
At the twilight's last gleaming?
953
01:05:50,864 --> 01:05:54,785
Who's broad stripes and bright stars
954
01:05:54,952 --> 01:05:58,789
Through the perilous fight
955
01:05:59,373 --> 01:06:03,377
O'er the ramparts we watched
956
01:06:03,543 --> 01:06:07,798
Were so gallantly streaming?
957
01:06:07,965 --> 01:06:12,135
And the rockets red glare
958
01:06:12,302 --> 01:06:16,598
The bombs bursting in air
959
01:06:16,765 --> 01:06:20,936
Gave proof through the night
960
01:06:21,103 --> 01:06:25,482
That our flag was still there
961
01:06:25,649 --> 01:06:35,450
Oh, say
Does that star-spangled banner yet wave
962
01:06:35,617 --> 01:06:41,206
O'er the land of the free
963
01:06:41,373 --> 01:06:47,421
And the home of the brave
964
01:06:47,587 --> 01:06:48,880
[CROWD CHEERING]
965
01:06:49,047 --> 01:06:50,424
MAN 7:
Play ball!
966
01:06:52,259 --> 01:06:54,928
Another opening day, Harold.
967
01:06:55,095 --> 01:06:57,389
All future, no past.
968
01:06:57,556 --> 01:06:59,891
It's a blank page, sir.
969
01:07:00,934 --> 01:07:02,060
BARBER".
Hello, everybody.
970
01:07:02,227 --> 01:07:06,148
It's The OI' Redhead speaking here from
high up in the catbird seat at Ebbets Field.
971
01:07:06,356 --> 01:07:10,819
Welcome to opening day of the 1947
Brooklyn Dodgers season.
972
01:07:10,986 --> 01:07:15,741
As many of you know,
the Dodgers finished 96-60 last season.
973
01:07:15,907 --> 01:07:18,827
Respectable, but still two games
behind St. Louis...
974
01:07:18,994 --> 01:07:21,580
...who would, of course, go on to take
the World Series.
975
01:07:21,747 --> 01:07:24,791
The Dodgers looking to move up this year
and win the pennant.
976
01:07:24,958 --> 01:07:26,960
ANNOUNCER [ON PA]:
Now batting for the Dodgers...
977
01:07:27,127 --> 01:07:29,463
BARBER".
One out. Bottom of the 1st.
978
01:07:29,629 --> 01:07:33,383
Headed to the plate now for his first
big league at bat is Dodger rookie:
979
01:07:33,550 --> 01:07:34,968
Jackie Robinson.
980
01:07:35,427 --> 01:07:37,304
Jackie is very definitely brunet.
981
01:07:37,471 --> 01:07:38,472
[CROWD JEERING]
982
01:07:39,431 --> 01:07:41,183
The Dodgers still without a manager...
983
01:07:41,349 --> 01:07:44,936
...as Leo Durocher was suspended
earlier this week.
984
01:07:49,024 --> 01:07:50,442
MAN 1:
You got this, Jackie!
985
01:07:50,609 --> 01:07:52,986
BARBER:
It's a shirtsleeve afternoon.
986
01:07:53,737 --> 01:07:56,782
Johnny Sain looking in.
When he's got that fastball working...
987
01:07:56,948 --> 01:08:00,160
...what I mean to say is, he can toss
a lamb chop past a hungry wolf.
988
01:08:00,327 --> 01:08:02,829
Oh, and it's a hard-hit ball down
the third baseline.
989
01:08:02,996 --> 01:08:06,124
Elliott gobbles it up and makes
the long toss across the diamond.
990
01:08:06,291 --> 01:08:07,501
You're out!
991
01:08:07,667 --> 01:08:09,669
BARBER".
And Robinson is out.
992
01:08:09,836 --> 01:08:13,840
Come on! Ump, get some glasses!
993
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:16,093
You blew it! Al, you blew that call!
994
01:08:16,259 --> 01:08:17,302
You blew it!
995
01:08:17,469 --> 01:08:21,681
BARBER". It was a close play at first. A tie
usually goes to the runner but not this time.
996
01:08:21,848 --> 01:08:25,769
So that first big league hit
will remain to be seen.
997
01:08:27,187 --> 01:08:30,482
So the Giants got Mize batting cleanup.
998
01:08:32,859 --> 01:08:34,444
Shame about Leo.
999
01:08:34,986 --> 01:08:37,280
Inevitable, I suppose.
1000
01:08:37,447 --> 01:08:40,200
I asked him if she was worth it,
he said yes.
1001
01:08:40,367 --> 01:08:41,701
[CHUCKLING]
1002
01:08:41,868 --> 01:08:43,370
How's the retirement?
1003
01:08:43,537 --> 01:08:45,872
Oh, it's just fine.
1004
01:08:46,039 --> 01:08:47,374
You know, the roses are--
1005
01:08:47,541 --> 01:08:48,708
[CHUCKLES]
1006
01:08:48,875 --> 01:08:52,754
Hell of a thing
when a man's got good health...
1007
01:08:52,921 --> 01:08:54,339
...and plenty of money...
1008
01:08:54,506 --> 01:08:56,341
...and absolutely nothing to do.
1009
01:08:56,508 --> 01:08:59,886
Heh, well, I'm perfectly happy.
1010
01:09:00,053 --> 01:09:01,555
Is that so?
1011
01:09:03,390 --> 01:09:07,060
You know, when I took the Cleveland
uniform off two years ago...
1012
01:09:07,227 --> 01:09:11,481
...I promised the missus I'd never put
on another uniform again.
1013
01:09:11,731 --> 01:09:14,568
So the roses are beautiful...
1014
01:09:14,734 --> 01:09:16,903
...and, uh, I sleep better too.
1015
01:09:17,070 --> 01:09:20,073
Roses and sleep
are two wonderful things, Burt.
1016
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:25,620
But sleep you can get when you're in your
casket, and flowers look great on top of it.
1017
01:09:25,787 --> 01:09:29,332
But, uh, you don't look like a dead man
to me, Burt.
1018
01:09:30,041 --> 01:09:31,418
What's this about, Branch?
1019
01:09:36,715 --> 01:09:39,259
I need you to manage the Dodgers
for me, Burt.
1020
01:09:39,426 --> 01:09:40,594
- No.
- Now, wait.
1021
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:45,015
We're a ship without a captain
and there's a typhoon coming.
1022
01:09:45,182 --> 01:09:47,225
I'm sorry, no.
1023
01:09:48,518 --> 01:09:50,061
Don't you miss the game, Burt?
1024
01:09:51,104 --> 01:09:53,148
Working with the players?
1025
01:09:53,315 --> 01:09:55,650
Helping to get the best out of the team?
1026
01:09:56,109 --> 01:09:59,070
Go on, look me in the eye
and tell me you don't.
1027
01:09:59,279 --> 01:10:03,491
Baseball's the only life
for an old pepper pot like me.
1028
01:10:03,950 --> 01:10:05,785
But I promised my wife, Branch.
1029
01:10:05,952 --> 01:10:08,955
You promised her you'd never
put on a uniform again.
1030
01:10:09,122 --> 01:10:11,374
You didn't promise her
you wouldn't manage.
1031
01:10:12,125 --> 01:10:15,962
Wear a suit and a tie like Connie Mack.
1032
01:10:17,380 --> 01:10:18,465
[SIGHS]
1033
01:10:19,132 --> 01:10:20,800
Come on, Burt.
1034
01:10:21,801 --> 01:10:22,928
What do you say?
1035
01:10:25,513 --> 01:10:27,432
Burt, I need you.
1036
01:10:29,059 --> 01:10:31,019
What do you say?
1037
01:10:33,647 --> 01:10:34,981
[CHATTERING]
1038
01:10:35,690 --> 01:10:37,651
All right, men. Men?
1039
01:10:39,986 --> 01:10:41,571
Men?
1040
01:10:43,865 --> 01:10:47,035
I know you've all, uh, heard the news.
I'm your new manager.
1041
01:10:47,202 --> 01:10:49,537
I don't have much to say to you.
1042
01:10:50,705 --> 01:10:52,123
Just, uh...
1043
01:10:53,667 --> 01:10:56,002
...don't be afraid...
1044
01:10:56,169 --> 01:10:59,798
...of old Burt Shotton as your manager.
1045
01:11:00,173 --> 01:11:02,634
You can win the pennant in spite of me.
1046
01:11:03,802 --> 01:11:05,553
There's, uh...
1047
01:11:05,887 --> 01:11:08,556
There's nothing I can do to hurt you.
1048
01:11:14,688 --> 01:11:16,064
So, uh...
1049
01:11:17,857 --> 01:11:18,942
You Robinson?
1050
01:11:20,944 --> 01:11:22,696
I thought so.
1051
01:11:24,155 --> 01:11:26,866
So let's get out there and beat those, uh--
Who are we playing?
1052
01:11:27,033 --> 01:11:28,285
Giants, Burt.
1053
01:11:28,451 --> 01:11:31,663
Giants! Let's go beat the Giants!
1054
01:11:35,875 --> 01:11:38,503
ANNOUNCER [ON PA]:
Now batting, number 42...
1055
01:11:38,670 --> 01:11:42,549
...first baseman, Jackie Robinson.
1056
01:11:43,675 --> 01:11:45,844
You mark my words and circle this date.
1057
01:11:46,011 --> 01:11:49,514
Negroes are gonna run the white man
straight out of baseball.
1058
01:11:50,181 --> 01:11:52,392
I'm not prejudiced. It's physiological.
1059
01:11:52,559 --> 01:11:56,062
They have a longer heel bone.
Gives them an unfair speed advantage.
1060
01:11:57,814 --> 01:12:00,775
ANNOUNCER [ON PA]: Here's Robinson.
Jack holds that club down by the end...
1061
01:12:00,942 --> 01:12:04,946
...rear foot at the back end of the box,
slight open stance, bent at the knees.
1062
01:12:06,573 --> 01:12:07,574
Jack swings.
1063
01:12:07,741 --> 01:12:11,244
That ball is screaming out to left.
Hartung watching it go and...
1064
01:12:11,411 --> 01:12:13,371
So long! Home run!
1065
01:12:13,538 --> 01:12:14,622
[CHUCKLING]
1066
01:12:14,789 --> 01:12:17,751
Jackie Robinson
has his first Major League home run.
1067
01:12:17,917 --> 01:12:22,255
Was that because his heel bone
was longer, Bob? Hmm?
1068
01:12:22,422 --> 01:12:23,923
[ALL LAUGHING]
1069
01:12:27,427 --> 01:12:31,848
"Heel bone longer."
1070
01:12:45,153 --> 01:12:46,780
Sorry I'm late. Class ran long.
1071
01:12:46,946 --> 01:12:48,531
That's okay.
1072
01:12:48,698 --> 01:12:53,078
It's so cold and raw out, I don't want
him getting sick at the game.
1073
01:12:57,248 --> 01:12:59,209
Fed him already.
1074
01:12:59,459 --> 01:13:02,379
All of his bits are on the table
over there.
1075
01:13:03,588 --> 01:13:05,465
He'll be nice and warm in here.
1076
01:13:05,632 --> 01:13:07,467
Thank you, Alice.
1077
01:13:11,805 --> 01:13:13,348
BARBER".
Bottom of the 1st.
1078
01:13:14,641 --> 01:13:16,893
The skies are leaden now.
Pretty threatening.
1079
01:13:17,060 --> 01:13:19,062
Eddie Stanky, safe at first.
1080
01:13:19,229 --> 01:13:21,314
And Jackie Robinson stepping
to the plate.
1081
01:13:21,815 --> 01:13:26,152
There's a slight breeze coming in
from right field, blowing towards left.
1082
01:13:26,319 --> 01:13:29,489
It shouldn't give much of an advantage
to the right-handed hitters.
1083
01:13:29,656 --> 01:13:31,366
Hey! nigger!
1084
01:13:31,741 --> 01:13:32,992
Black nigger!
1085
01:13:33,159 --> 01:13:37,247
Hey, why don't you go back to the cotton
fields where you come from, huh?
1086
01:13:37,414 --> 01:13:39,582
I saw you swing your way
out of a jungle.
1087
01:13:39,749 --> 01:13:43,753
Chapman, the Phillies manager, seems
to be chirping something out to Robinson.
1088
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:46,256
Chapman, a hothead
during his playing days...
1089
01:13:46,423 --> 01:13:49,759
...has carried that reputation right
into his managing.
1090
01:13:57,016 --> 01:13:58,393
MAN 1:
He's got half a mind, Jackie.
1091
01:14:00,437 --> 01:14:01,855
MAN 2:
Take that monkey out now!
1092
01:14:02,021 --> 01:14:05,024
CHAPMAN :
You all right? You don't look all right.
1093
01:14:05,191 --> 01:14:07,193
Nigger, nigger, nigger!
1094
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,779
Come on, nigger, nigger, nigger!
1095
01:14:12,115 --> 01:14:13,616
CROWD:
Whoa!
1096
01:14:16,661 --> 01:14:18,288
Welcome to the big leagues, rook!
1097
01:14:18,913 --> 01:14:21,040
Come on, now, get up.
1098
01:14:21,207 --> 01:14:23,751
Can't take the heat,
get out of the kitchen, rook.
1099
01:14:23,918 --> 01:14:24,961
Right, Bobby, heh?
1100
01:14:26,546 --> 01:14:28,548
CHAPMAN:
Those are nice dance moves, Bojangles.
1101
01:14:28,715 --> 01:14:32,760
Leave your hat on the ground, maybe
somebody'll throw some money in it, huh?
1102
01:14:34,471 --> 01:14:35,889
Put on a little show, nigger.
1103
01:14:36,055 --> 01:14:38,016
Do a little shuffle.
1104
01:14:38,725 --> 01:14:41,060
- Come on, midnight!
- He's all right, he's all right.
1105
01:14:41,227 --> 01:14:42,312
CHAPMAN :
All right, nigger.
1106
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:46,149
Let's do this. You ought to be careful
in this sunshine.
1107
01:14:46,316 --> 01:14:48,359
Tar baby skin gonna melt.
1108
01:14:53,573 --> 01:14:55,366
CROWD: Whoa!
MAN 3: You can't hit that?
1109
01:14:55,533 --> 01:14:57,368
MAN 4:
One more! Strike him!
1110
01:14:57,535 --> 01:15:00,205
CHAPMAN: Why don't you get that boy
that you sent down...
1111
01:15:00,371 --> 01:15:02,415
...to the International League, huh?
1112
01:15:02,582 --> 01:15:04,501
That's where Africans play, ain't it?
1113
01:15:04,667 --> 01:15:06,002
Who was that?
1114
01:15:06,169 --> 01:15:07,921
Who'd you put out of a job, nigger?
1115
01:15:08,421 --> 01:15:10,256
Come on, Jackie.
1116
01:15:10,423 --> 01:15:12,425
BARBER'.
Robinson, waiting for the pitch.
1117
01:15:12,592 --> 01:15:14,594
Swings, and it's a fly ball out to left.
1118
01:15:17,347 --> 01:15:19,349
Ennis settles under it for the out.
1119
01:15:21,851 --> 01:15:25,104
Sky's starting to clear now,
the sun pushing its way through.
1120
01:15:25,271 --> 01:15:27,732
Nigger can't play.
1121
01:15:28,566 --> 01:15:30,902
It's all right, he can take it.
1122
01:15:31,736 --> 01:15:34,280
God built him to last.
1123
01:15:54,592 --> 01:15:56,636
BARBER".
No score, bottom of the 4th.
1124
01:15:56,803 --> 01:15:59,639
Spider Jorgensen
taking a small lead off first.
1125
01:15:59,806 --> 01:16:02,642
Jorgensen, a rookie,
spent last season in Montreal.
1126
01:16:04,435 --> 01:16:05,979
Here's the pitch.
1127
01:16:06,145 --> 01:16:08,565
And Stanky lines a single
out to right field.
1128
01:16:08,731 --> 01:16:10,108
MAN 1 :
Three!
1129
01:16:10,275 --> 01:16:13,319
MAN 2: Hung low. Now there you go.
ANNOUNCER [ON PA]: Next up for the Dodgers:
1130
01:16:13,903 --> 01:16:16,114
Jackie Robinson.
1131
01:16:18,157 --> 01:16:19,284
CHAPMAN:
Hey!
1132
01:16:19,450 --> 01:16:20,785
Hey, Pee Wee!
1133
01:16:20,952 --> 01:16:23,371
Hey, what's this nigger doing
for you all...
1134
01:16:23,538 --> 01:16:26,499
...that you let him drink out
of the same water fountain as you?
1135
01:16:27,166 --> 01:16:28,543
Huh?
1136
01:16:29,294 --> 01:16:31,129
I hope you don't take showers
with him.
1137
01:16:32,046 --> 01:16:34,591
Because you gonna be a mess!
1138
01:16:36,884 --> 01:16:38,177
Hey! nigger!
1139
01:16:38,344 --> 01:16:40,346
You like white women, huh?
1140
01:16:40,513 --> 01:16:44,017
Hey, which one of these Dodger wives
are you climbing on tonight?
1141
01:16:44,183 --> 01:16:45,268
UMPIRE:
Time!
1142
01:16:45,435 --> 01:16:48,354
Wait, timeout, hold on.
He's gotta take a nap.
1143
01:16:48,521 --> 01:16:49,522
Hey, which one is it?
1144
01:16:51,190 --> 01:16:52,942
I think I know!
1145
01:16:53,568 --> 01:16:54,652
Dixie?
1146
01:16:56,195 --> 01:16:57,196
[CHUCKLING]
1147
01:16:57,363 --> 01:17:01,034
Sorry. Dixie,
I hate to be the one to tell you.
1148
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,787
I saw her walking earlier
with a little bit of a bow in her step.
1149
01:17:05,330 --> 01:17:06,456
It'll be fine.
1150
01:17:06,623 --> 01:17:10,460
It'll be fine. He looks like a nice boy.
1151
01:17:10,627 --> 01:17:12,378
That right, boy?
1152
01:17:12,545 --> 01:17:14,213
Come on, nigger, nigger, nigger!
1153
01:17:15,048 --> 01:17:16,924
BARBER".
Two men on for Robinson.
1154
01:17:17,508 --> 01:17:19,344
Here's the pitch from Leonard.
1155
01:17:19,510 --> 01:17:22,930
Swung on,
and it's a towering infield pop-up.
1156
01:17:27,226 --> 01:17:28,436
Seminick settles under it.
1157
01:17:28,603 --> 01:17:30,063
- Hey, is that a home run?
MAN 3: Yeah.
1158
01:17:30,229 --> 01:17:32,148
If you're playing in an elevator shaft.
1159
01:17:32,315 --> 01:17:34,901
Can of corn, and Robinson is out.
1160
01:17:36,778 --> 01:17:38,821
You don't belong here, nigger!
1161
01:17:39,656 --> 01:17:42,492
You hear me?
Why don't you look in the mirror?
1162
01:17:42,659 --> 01:17:44,744
This a white man's game.
1163
01:17:45,203 --> 01:17:47,705
All right? Get that through
your thick monkey skull!
1164
01:17:59,759 --> 01:18:01,302
Look at me, baby.
1165
01:18:02,512 --> 01:18:04,013
[PANTING]
1166
01:18:05,890 --> 01:18:08,101
Look at me, baby. Look at me.
1167
01:18:15,191 --> 01:18:16,693
[SCREAMING]
1168
01:18:32,125 --> 01:18:33,459
[SOBBING]
1169
01:18:39,549 --> 01:18:40,800
No!
1170
01:18:43,803 --> 01:18:45,430
No.
1171
01:18:46,180 --> 01:18:48,641
The next white son of a bitch
that opens his mouth...
1172
01:18:48,808 --> 01:18:50,977
...I'll smash his goddamn teeth in.
1173
01:18:51,477 --> 01:18:53,855
RICKEY:
You can't do that, Jack.
1174
01:18:59,819 --> 01:19:02,488
I'm supposed to just let this go on?
1175
01:19:02,989 --> 01:19:05,575
RICKEY:
These men have to live with themselves.
1176
01:19:06,659 --> 01:19:09,328
I have to live with myself too.
1177
01:19:09,954 --> 01:19:12,957
Right now I'm living a sermon out there.
1178
01:19:14,417 --> 01:19:16,502
You don't matter now, Jack.
1179
01:19:16,961 --> 01:19:18,546
You're in this thing.
1180
01:19:18,713 --> 01:19:22,008
You don't have the right to pull out
from the backing of people...
1181
01:19:22,175 --> 01:19:25,720
...that believe in you, that respect you,
that need you.
1182
01:19:25,887 --> 01:19:27,180
Is that so?
1183
01:19:27,346 --> 01:19:31,601
If you fight, they won't say
that Chapman forced you to.
1184
01:19:31,768 --> 01:19:36,397
They'll say that you're in over your head.
That you don't belong here.
1185
01:19:36,564 --> 01:19:39,942
Do you know what it's like having
somebody do this to you?
1186
01:19:40,109 --> 01:19:41,277
No.
1187
01:19:42,069 --> 01:19:43,362
No.
1188
01:19:44,071 --> 01:19:45,406
You do.
1189
01:19:47,867 --> 01:19:49,160
You're the one...
1190
01:19:50,244 --> 01:19:52,038
...living the sermon.
1191
01:19:54,540 --> 01:19:56,292
In the wilderness.
1192
01:19:56,459 --> 01:19:58,169
Forty days.
1193
01:19:58,377 --> 01:19:59,670
All of it.
1194
01:20:02,006 --> 01:20:03,382
Only you.
1195
01:20:04,425 --> 01:20:07,094
There's not a goddamn thing I can do
about it.
1196
01:20:07,261 --> 01:20:08,763
Of course there is!
1197
01:20:08,930 --> 01:20:11,599
You can get out there and hit!
1198
01:20:11,766 --> 01:20:14,852
You can get on base and score.
1199
01:20:15,019 --> 01:20:18,022
You can win this game for us.
1200
01:20:19,106 --> 01:20:20,483
We need you.
1201
01:20:20,650 --> 01:20:22,693
Everybody needs you!
1202
01:20:22,902 --> 01:20:25,404
You're medicine, Jack!
1203
01:20:55,935 --> 01:20:58,229
MAN:
Let's go, fellas.
1204
01:20:58,437 --> 01:21:00,064
They're taking the field.
1205
01:21:02,316 --> 01:21:03,734
MAN:
Now, get out there.
1206
01:21:03,943 --> 01:21:05,027
Be smart, fellas.
1207
01:21:05,194 --> 01:21:06,320
Let's go!
1208
01:21:12,994 --> 01:21:15,037
Who's playing first?
1209
01:21:20,459 --> 01:21:22,670
I'm gonna need a new bat.
1210
01:21:25,756 --> 01:21:28,843
BARBER'. Eight zeros on the scoreboard
for the Phillies, seven for the Dodgers.
1211
01:21:29,010 --> 01:21:31,470
No score,
with the bottom of the 8th coming up.
1212
01:21:31,637 --> 01:21:33,097
CHAPMAN:
All right, nigger.
1213
01:21:34,473 --> 01:21:37,018
Hey, boy!
1214
01:21:38,311 --> 01:21:40,104
Porch monkey!
1215
01:21:40,479 --> 01:21:42,231
Hey, nigger, I know you can hear me.
1216
01:21:43,190 --> 01:21:46,611
You know what you're here for,
don't you, huh?
1217
01:21:46,777 --> 01:21:50,990
You're here to get the nigger dollars
for Rickey at the gate.
1218
01:21:53,492 --> 01:21:55,411
You don't belong here, nigger!
1219
01:21:55,578 --> 01:21:58,331
Sit down.
You sit down or I sit you down.
1220
01:21:58,497 --> 01:21:59,832
CHAPMAN:
What's the problem, Stank?
1221
01:21:59,999 --> 01:22:03,127
You're the problem, you disgrace.
What the hell kind of man are you?
1222
01:22:03,294 --> 01:22:07,798
You know he can't fight back. Why don't
you try picking on someone who can.
1223
01:22:07,965 --> 01:22:10,343
I'm not gonna fight you,
get thrown out of the game.
1224
01:22:10,509 --> 01:22:13,512
Stanky now having a chin-wag
with his ex-teammate Chapman.
1225
01:22:13,679 --> 01:22:15,556
Both men, masters of distraction.
1226
01:22:15,723 --> 01:22:17,850
Stanky from second
and Chapman from the dugout.
1227
01:22:18,017 --> 01:22:20,311
We'll have to wait and see
what the umpire does...
1228
01:22:20,478 --> 01:22:23,356
...since he's well within his rights
to kick Stanky out.
1229
01:22:23,522 --> 01:22:27,693
Hey, 12! That's enough.
Back to the dugout.
1230
01:22:27,860 --> 01:22:29,779
You shut your mouth or I shut it for you.
1231
01:22:29,946 --> 01:22:31,614
This ain't happening.
1232
01:22:33,824 --> 01:22:37,286
Hey, Stank? What's it like
being a nigger's nigger?
1233
01:22:37,453 --> 01:22:40,998
I don't know, Chapman. What's it
like to be a redneck piece of shit?
1234
01:22:46,796 --> 01:22:48,589
BARBER".
Robinson up.
1235
01:22:49,924 --> 01:22:51,384
Here's the pitch.
1236
01:22:54,804 --> 01:22:58,349
And Jack pokes a soft hit past second.
1237
01:22:59,392 --> 01:23:00,393
MAN 1:
Sorry!
1238
01:23:02,061 --> 01:23:04,981
BARBER". Not much of a hit to speak of,
but Jackie is standing on first.
1239
01:23:05,564 --> 01:23:06,983
Go, Jackie.
1240
01:23:07,149 --> 01:23:09,318
ANNOUNCER [ON PA]:
Center fielder, number 7, Pete Reiser.
1241
01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:12,863
BARBER'. Mr. Pete Reiser steps up
into the batter's box.
1242
01:23:15,032 --> 01:23:16,909
Robinson with another big lead off first.
1243
01:23:17,076 --> 01:23:19,578
He's just as restless
as a cat with a hot foot.
1244
01:23:22,915 --> 01:23:24,083
MAN 2:
Back.
1245
01:23:25,251 --> 01:23:26,752
- Whoa!
- Safe!
1246
01:23:26,919 --> 01:23:27,962
[CROWD CHEERING]
1247
01:23:30,089 --> 01:23:33,217
BARBER". The Flatbush faithful
voicing their approval of Jack...
1248
01:23:33,384 --> 01:23:35,052
...as this type of scrappy play...
1249
01:23:35,219 --> 01:23:38,431
...is exactly what they've grown
to expect of their beloved Bums.
1250
01:23:38,597 --> 01:23:40,099
MAN 3:
Play now.
1251
01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:42,018
Work it.
1252
01:23:47,273 --> 01:23:50,526
Steal it, sweetheart. Take it.
1253
01:24:00,119 --> 01:24:02,038
- Strike three, you're out.
MAN 4: He's going!
1254
01:24:07,460 --> 01:24:08,586
MAN 5: Down!
UMPIRE: Safe!
1255
01:24:13,215 --> 01:24:15,092
BARBER". The Dodgers,
with an excellent chance...
1256
01:24:15,259 --> 01:24:17,803
...as Robinson has willed himself
into scoring position.
1257
01:24:17,970 --> 01:24:19,472
MAN 6:
Thafiaboy.
1258
01:24:19,638 --> 01:24:23,225
BARBER". Young Gene Hermanski
steps to the plate, playing right today.
1259
01:24:24,977 --> 01:24:26,145
Come on!
1260
01:24:37,823 --> 01:24:39,533
BARBER:
Hermanski cracks a single to left...
1261
01:24:39,700 --> 01:24:42,328
...and Robinson is able to trot home
for the first run...
1262
01:24:42,495 --> 01:24:45,164
...that may also be the decider.
1263
01:24:48,709 --> 01:24:50,461
All right.
1264
01:24:54,298 --> 01:24:56,592
MAN 7: Jackie!
MAN 8: All right!
1265
01:24:57,218 --> 01:24:58,761
Hey, Robinson!
1266
01:25:13,818 --> 01:25:14,860
Thanks.
1267
01:25:18,197 --> 01:25:19,698
For what?
1268
01:25:21,075 --> 01:25:23,536
You're on my team.
What the hell am I supposed to do?
1269
01:25:30,793 --> 01:25:31,836
Nice hit.
1270
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,054
All this fuss over a rookie.
1271
01:25:42,221 --> 01:25:45,391
What, he's got 10, 12 at bats.
1272
01:25:45,558 --> 01:25:46,851
Y'all gonna spoil him.
1273
01:25:47,017 --> 01:25:49,103
Chapman,
do you think it cost you the game?
1274
01:25:49,270 --> 01:25:53,065
No. I think that a single out
to the left field cost us the game.
1275
01:25:53,232 --> 01:25:54,400
[CHUCKLES]
1276
01:25:54,567 --> 01:25:56,652
You think you were a little hard
on Robinson?
1277
01:25:56,819 --> 01:26:00,447
No. Look, we treat him the same way
we treat Hank Greenberg...
1278
01:26:00,614 --> 01:26:03,117
...except we call him a kike
instead of a coon.
1279
01:26:03,284 --> 01:26:05,744
Whenever we play exhibitions
with the Yankees...
1280
01:26:05,911 --> 01:26:08,330
...we call Joe DiMaggio "The Wop."
1281
01:26:08,497 --> 01:26:10,457
All right? They laugh about it.
1282
01:26:10,833 --> 01:26:13,043
And it's forgotten when the game's over.
1283
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:28,559
JACKIE:
I don't care if they like me.
1284
01:26:29,935 --> 01:26:32,271
I didn't come here to make friends.
1285
01:26:34,064 --> 01:26:37,193
I don't even care if they respect me.
I know who I am.
1286
01:26:39,612 --> 01:26:42,156
Got enough respect for myself.
1287
01:26:44,533 --> 01:26:46,410
But I do not want them to beat me.
1288
01:26:48,162 --> 01:26:49,622
They're never gonna beat you.
1289
01:26:56,170 --> 01:26:59,298
They came close today.
1290
01:27:12,937 --> 01:27:15,231
I'm going in that Phillies dugout
tomorrow...
1291
01:27:15,397 --> 01:27:17,483
...and I'm gonna wring
Ben Chapman's neck!
1292
01:27:17,983 --> 01:27:19,485
[LAUGHING]
1293
01:27:20,486 --> 01:27:22,613
Did I say something funny?
1294
01:27:22,780 --> 01:27:26,033
When I first told you about Robinson,
Harold...
1295
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:29,161
...you were against it.
1296
01:27:29,328 --> 01:27:31,497
Now, all of the sudden
you're worried about him.
1297
01:27:31,664 --> 01:27:32,957
Wonder how that happened.
1298
01:27:33,123 --> 01:27:36,460
- Why, any decent-minded person would--
- Sympathy, Harold.
1299
01:27:36,877 --> 01:27:39,505
It's a Greek word. It means "to suffer."
1300
01:27:39,672 --> 01:27:43,133
"I sympathize with you"
means "I suffer with you."
1301
01:27:43,717 --> 01:27:46,428
That Philadelphia manager is, uh...
1302
01:27:46,595 --> 01:27:47,638
[CHUCKLES]
1303
01:27:47,888 --> 01:27:49,265
He's doing me a service.
1304
01:27:49,431 --> 01:27:52,184
- A service?
- Yes.
1305
01:27:52,351 --> 01:27:56,855
He's creating sympathy
on Jackie's behalf.
1306
01:27:57,564 --> 01:28:00,192
"Philadelphia" is Greek.
1307
01:28:00,901 --> 01:28:03,279
Means "brotherly love."
1308
01:28:03,445 --> 01:28:04,863
[BUZZER BUZZES]
1309
01:28:05,030 --> 01:28:07,199
JANE [OVER INTERCOM]:
Bob Bragan to see you, Mr. Rickey.
1310
01:28:07,658 --> 01:28:10,703
What in Satan's fire does he want?
1311
01:28:12,037 --> 01:28:13,122
All right, send him in.
1312
01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:26,552
What do you want, Bragan?
1313
01:28:27,177 --> 01:28:29,680
Uh, Mr. Rickey, I, uh...
1314
01:28:32,057 --> 01:28:34,393
- I would like, um...
- What do you want'?
1315
01:28:35,894 --> 01:28:37,896
I'd like to not be traded, sir.
1316
01:28:39,565 --> 01:28:41,108
If it's not too late.
1317
01:28:42,443 --> 01:28:44,028
What about Robinson?
1318
01:28:46,447 --> 01:28:48,282
The world's changing.
1319
01:28:49,491 --> 01:28:51,994
I guess I can live with the change.
1320
01:28:52,911 --> 01:28:57,583
I mean, I can't believe it.
I speak my mind, and they trade me.
1321
01:28:57,750 --> 01:28:59,501
[COUNTRY MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
1322
01:28:59,668 --> 01:29:01,420
This ain't the America I know.
1323
01:29:01,587 --> 01:29:05,090
Uh-uh. Home of the free, land of the brave?
You hear me?
1324
01:29:06,425 --> 01:29:08,344
Where they sending you, Hig?
1325
01:29:09,428 --> 01:29:10,554
Pittsburgh.
1326
01:29:11,138 --> 01:29:15,809
For cash and some Italian outfielder
named Gionfriddo.
1327
01:29:18,437 --> 01:29:21,190
Pittsburgh. I mean...
1328
01:29:24,651 --> 01:29:26,945
Good luck, boys. You gonna need it.
1329
01:29:31,575 --> 01:29:33,285
Pittsburgh!
1330
01:29:34,119 --> 01:29:35,621
[SIGHS]
1331
01:29:36,872 --> 01:29:38,457
Branch, it's Herb.
1332
01:29:38,624 --> 01:29:40,709
RICKY [OVER PHONE]:
Herb. What can I do for you?
1333
01:29:40,876 --> 01:29:42,961
Branch,
how long have we known each other?
1334
01:29:43,879 --> 01:29:46,590
Oh, 20 years, maybe more.
1335
01:29:46,757 --> 01:29:49,343
That's right.
Been over some solid road together.
1336
01:29:49,510 --> 01:29:55,182
So, um, you can trust me when I tell you
Brooklyn's due here tomorrow...
1337
01:29:56,016 --> 01:29:58,644
...but you cannot bring
that nigger down here...
1338
01:29:58,811 --> 01:30:00,604
[OVER PHONE]
...with the rest of your team.
1339
01:30:02,981 --> 01:30:04,817
Why's that, Herb?
1340
01:30:04,983 --> 01:30:07,152
His name is Jackie Robinson,
by the way.
1341
01:30:07,319 --> 01:30:09,696
Yeah, Branch,
I understand he's got a name...
1342
01:30:09,863 --> 01:30:13,700
...but we're just not ready for that sort
of thing here in Philadelphia.
1343
01:30:14,326 --> 01:30:18,831
We're not gonna be able to take the field
against your team if that boy's in uniform.
1344
01:30:19,289 --> 01:30:22,835
Well, what you do with your team
is your decision, Herb.
1345
01:30:23,001 --> 01:30:26,004
But my team's gonna be
in Philadelphia tomorrow...
1346
01:30:26,171 --> 01:30:28,006
[OVER PHONE]
...with Robinson.
1347
01:30:28,173 --> 01:30:31,552
And if we have to claim the game
as a forfeit, so be it.
1348
01:30:31,718 --> 01:30:33,637
That's 9-0...
1349
01:30:33,804 --> 01:30:35,139
[OVER PHONE]
...in case you forgot.
1350
01:30:35,305 --> 01:30:38,684
You've had a hell of a hair across your ass
over this for a long time.
1351
01:30:38,851 --> 01:30:41,353
I'd like to know
what it is you're trying to prove.
1352
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:44,106
You think God likes baseball, Herb?
1353
01:30:44,773 --> 01:30:47,526
What--? What the hell
is that supposed to mean?
1354
01:30:47,693 --> 01:30:50,070
It means someday
you're gonna meet God...
1355
01:30:50,237 --> 01:30:52,948
...and when he inquires
as why you didn't take the field...
1356
01:30:53,115 --> 01:30:54,867
...against Robinson in Philadelphia...
1357
01:30:55,033 --> 01:30:57,619
...and you answer
that it's because he was a Negro...
1358
01:30:57,786 --> 01:31:00,664
...it may not be a sufficient reply!
1359
01:31:21,477 --> 01:31:25,898
Okay, guys, we got 20 minutes to check in
and get to Shibe, so chop-chop!
1360
01:31:26,148 --> 01:31:27,232
MAN:
Hey!
1361
01:31:27,691 --> 01:31:29,234
Hey. Out.
1362
01:31:29,401 --> 01:31:30,819
And get that bus out of here.
1363
01:31:30,986 --> 01:31:34,907
Oh, no, no, no, we have reservations.
We're the Dodgers.
1364
01:31:35,073 --> 01:31:39,077
No, your team is not welcome here. Not
while you have ball club Negroes with you.
1365
01:31:39,244 --> 01:31:41,371
You just mean that Robinson can't stay,
right?
1366
01:31:41,538 --> 01:31:45,042
No, I mean your entire team
has been refused.
1367
01:31:45,209 --> 01:31:48,712
- We've been staying here for 10 years.
- And you can stay away that long too.
1368
01:31:48,879 --> 01:31:51,006
Hold on. Now, wait,
we should talk about this.
1369
01:31:51,173 --> 01:31:53,217
Who put you up to this?
Is it the Phillies?
1370
01:31:53,383 --> 01:31:55,385
They're not gonna let us stay here,
fellas.
1371
01:31:56,845 --> 01:31:58,222
They don't want us here.
1372
01:31:59,890 --> 01:32:02,809
Yeah, well maybe 42's got enough friends
in town we can bunk up.
1373
01:32:02,976 --> 01:32:05,938
MAN: It's the rule we're gonna go with.
SUKEFORTH : We've got reservations.
1374
01:32:06,104 --> 01:32:07,689
- Why is that?
MAN: That is the rule!
1375
01:32:07,856 --> 01:32:09,608
What's that supposed to mean?
1376
01:32:09,983 --> 01:32:11,652
It's not supposed to mean a thing.
1377
01:32:11,818 --> 01:32:14,905
When you can't get in hotels,
you got people's houses you stay at.
1378
01:32:15,072 --> 01:32:16,615
Ain't that right?
1379
01:32:18,492 --> 01:32:19,618
What?
1380
01:32:21,411 --> 01:32:23,205
What do you want from me, Walker?
1381
01:32:24,164 --> 01:32:25,374
An apology.
1382
01:32:25,541 --> 01:32:28,252
You want an apology? For what?
1383
01:32:29,419 --> 01:32:30,754
For places like this?
1384
01:32:31,463 --> 01:32:35,634
No. For turning this season
into a damn sideshow.
1385
01:32:35,801 --> 01:32:37,761
- Hey, fellas.
- I'm a ballplayer, all right?
1386
01:32:37,928 --> 01:32:40,264
- I'm here to play ball!
- So am I.
1387
01:32:41,682 --> 01:32:42,891
I'm hereto win.
1388
01:32:43,058 --> 01:32:44,685
We want to win.
We on the same page?
1389
01:32:44,851 --> 01:32:47,062
Well, how we supposed
to win sleeping on a bus?
1390
01:32:47,229 --> 01:32:50,148
Maybe it'll do you some good
the way you been swinging the bat.
1391
01:32:50,315 --> 01:32:53,485
- Hey, you watch your mouth!
- Hey, you watch your hand.
1392
01:32:53,652 --> 01:32:57,072
- Don't you ever talk to me like that again!
- Watch your hand!
1393
01:32:57,239 --> 01:32:59,408
You hear me? Watch yourself!
1394
01:33:00,075 --> 01:33:03,120
- You spit on me now?
- If I spit on you, it'd be an improvement.
1395
01:33:03,287 --> 01:33:06,790
- That's it. You go home, all right?
- All right, that's enough!
1396
01:33:07,666 --> 01:33:10,335
Hey, hey! Get used to it, fellas.
This how it's gonna be.
1397
01:33:10,502 --> 01:33:12,129
We show up, the circus is in town!
1398
01:33:12,296 --> 01:33:14,339
I'm not going anywhere!
1399
01:33:14,506 --> 01:33:15,757
I'm right here!
1400
01:33:16,967 --> 01:33:19,970
"There is a great lynch mob among us.
1401
01:33:20,178 --> 01:33:23,473
They go unhooded
and work without a rope."
1402
01:33:23,682 --> 01:33:25,601
That's you, not me.
1403
01:33:26,268 --> 01:33:29,104
"We must remember
that all this country's enemies...
1404
01:33:29,271 --> 01:33:32,065
...are not beyond the frontiers
of our homeland."
1405
01:33:32,232 --> 01:33:33,483
A Jew probably wrote that.
1406
01:33:33,650 --> 01:33:36,028
I don't care who wrote it.
It's in the damn papers!
1407
01:33:39,364 --> 01:33:40,866
[SIGHS]
1408
01:33:42,784 --> 01:33:44,703
This is not good, Ben.
1409
01:33:45,245 --> 01:33:47,789
Makes the entire Phillies organization
look racist.
1410
01:33:47,956 --> 01:33:49,499
You gotta do something about it.
1411
01:33:49,666 --> 01:33:52,878
Me? Look, I'm defending baseball.
1412
01:33:53,045 --> 01:33:56,381
It's time for you to step up
and defend the Phillies.
1413
01:33:56,882 --> 01:34:02,387
This started on the field, it's gonna end on
the field, and we're done talking about it.
1414
01:34:04,222 --> 01:34:05,849
All right.
1415
01:34:07,142 --> 01:34:08,810
- Hey, fellas.
- Hey.
1416
01:34:17,277 --> 01:34:19,655
Excuse me. Hi. Jackie.
1417
01:34:19,821 --> 01:34:21,281
Uh, Wendell, um...
1418
01:34:21,657 --> 01:34:22,699
A request came in.
1419
01:34:22,866 --> 01:34:27,037
Uh, Ben Chapman, he's the, uh, manager
for the Phillies. You knew that.
1420
01:34:27,204 --> 01:34:29,373
Uh, he'd like his photo taken with you.
1421
01:34:32,292 --> 01:34:33,585
You been drinking, Harold?
1422
01:34:33,752 --> 01:34:35,253
[CHUCKLING]
1423
01:34:36,838 --> 01:34:39,174
No. No. I wish.
1424
01:34:39,341 --> 01:34:42,386
No, Mr. Rickey, uh,
he thinks it's a good idea.
1425
01:34:43,387 --> 01:34:46,556
He says it's gonna be in every sports page
across the country.
1426
01:34:46,723 --> 01:34:50,352
An example that even the most hardened
man can change.
1427
01:34:52,521 --> 01:34:56,692
Chapman hasn't changed.
He's just trying to save face.
1428
01:34:56,858 --> 01:35:00,320
Mr. Rickey says it doesn't matter
if he's changed.
1429
01:35:00,487 --> 01:35:02,864
As long as it looks like he's changed.
1430
01:35:04,783 --> 01:35:07,411
Jackie, you've seen the questions
come in slow.
1431
01:35:07,786 --> 01:35:10,789
Now, just see this photo come in
even slower.
1432
01:35:10,956 --> 01:35:14,876
Chapman said he'd come down here.
Or, uh, he could meet you in the runway.
1433
01:35:15,043 --> 01:35:16,336
No.
1434
01:35:20,841 --> 01:35:22,426
On the field.
1435
01:35:23,552 --> 01:35:24,970
Where everyone can see.
1436
01:35:25,137 --> 01:35:28,849
Did World War Ill break out?
Look at all of y'all.
1437
01:35:29,433 --> 01:35:32,686
They even dug you up, Baum.
This must be important.
1438
01:35:32,853 --> 01:35:34,896
Listen, I want to say something, uh...
1439
01:35:35,897 --> 01:35:37,733
Jackie's been accepted into baseball...
1440
01:35:37,899 --> 01:35:41,319
...and the Philadelphia organization
wish him all the luck that we can.
1441
01:35:42,821 --> 01:35:46,491
I just hope that our trial of fire
has helped him along.
1442
01:35:47,909 --> 01:35:50,704
MAN 1: How about a picture?
You shake hands. Bury the hatchet.
1443
01:35:50,871 --> 01:35:52,497
You wanna bury the hatchet?
1444
01:35:53,957 --> 01:35:55,167
Sure.
1445
01:35:58,128 --> 01:35:59,713
We'll use a bat.
1446
01:36:01,131 --> 01:36:03,383
That way we don't have to touch skin.
1447
01:36:04,217 --> 01:36:05,886
- All right.
MAN 2: Come on, fellas.
1448
01:36:06,052 --> 01:36:08,305
- All right, do it.
MAN 3: That's good. Right here.
1449
01:36:12,976 --> 01:36:14,436
MAN 4:
One more. This way, Ben.
1450
01:36:16,354 --> 01:36:17,856
BARBER".
It's Ostermueller on the mound.
1451
01:36:20,108 --> 01:36:21,443
Ostermueller, deliberate.
1452
01:36:21,610 --> 01:36:25,238
What I mean to say is, he's one of
the slowest working pitchers in the game.
1453
01:36:32,245 --> 01:36:33,872
Here's the windup. And...
1454
01:36:34,873 --> 01:36:38,376
Oh, my! He hit Jackie Robinson right
in the head. And Jackie is down!
1455
01:36:38,543 --> 01:36:40,754
What are you doing out there,
Ostermueller?
1456
01:36:41,213 --> 01:36:42,547
Hey!
1457
01:36:42,714 --> 01:36:46,009
Ostermueller, you creep!
You gotta bat too! Don't you forget it!
1458
01:36:46,176 --> 01:36:47,844
Hey, I'm ready, you wop bastard!
1459
01:36:48,011 --> 01:36:50,555
Oh, yeah? "Wop bastard"?
It's coming between your eyes.
1460
01:36:50,722 --> 01:36:53,767
- I'm gonna come like a kamikaze!
- He doesn't belong here!
1461
01:36:53,934 --> 01:36:54,976
Get off! Knock it off!
1462
01:36:55,143 --> 01:36:56,186
[ALL SHOUTING]
1463
01:37:06,571 --> 01:37:09,241
I'll send you back
to Schmeling and Goering...
1464
01:37:09,407 --> 01:37:11,618
...and the rest of your dead
Kraut buddies!
1465
01:37:11,785 --> 01:37:13,161
MAN 1:
You want some, Piner?
1466
01:37:13,328 --> 01:37:14,704
MAN 2:
He doesn't belong here!
1467
01:37:26,675 --> 01:37:28,426
They're just ignorant.
1468
01:37:31,304 --> 01:37:32,347
Hmm?
1469
01:37:33,265 --> 01:37:36,726
If they knew you,
they would be ashamed.
1470
01:37:49,698 --> 01:37:51,575
What can I do for you, Pee Wee?
1471
01:37:52,659 --> 01:37:55,954
Well, Mr. Rickey, it's like this.
1472
01:37:56,371 --> 01:37:58,623
The series in Cincinnati next week?
1473
01:37:58,790 --> 01:38:01,793
Yes. Important road trip.
1474
01:38:02,460 --> 01:38:05,046
- We're only three games out of first.
- Yes, sir.
1475
01:38:05,755 --> 01:38:07,215
Now, you know I'm from Kentucky.
1476
01:38:07,674 --> 01:38:12,637
Then Cincinnati
will nearly be a home game for you.
1477
01:38:13,263 --> 01:38:14,806
Well...
1478
01:38:16,641 --> 01:38:18,351
...I got this letter.
1479
01:38:18,894 --> 01:38:22,480
Apparently, some people aren't too happy
about me playing with Robinson.
1480
01:38:22,647 --> 01:38:23,982
Huh?
1481
01:38:27,068 --> 01:38:28,236
"Nigger lover.
1482
01:38:29,529 --> 01:38:31,114
Watch yourself.
1483
01:38:31,531 --> 01:38:32,991
We'll get you, Carpetbagger."
1484
01:38:33,158 --> 01:38:34,659
[CHUCKLES]
1485
01:38:36,077 --> 01:38:37,245
Pretty typical stuff.
1486
01:38:39,372 --> 01:38:40,999
Well, it's not typical to me, sir.
1487
01:38:45,253 --> 01:38:46,296
[CHUCKLES]
1488
01:38:48,381 --> 01:38:51,384
How many of those letters
have you gotten, Pee Wee?
1489
01:38:52,636 --> 01:38:54,804
Just the one. Ain't that enough?
1490
01:39:00,143 --> 01:39:01,561
What are those?
1491
01:39:02,145 --> 01:39:04,522
Well, I'll tell you what they aren't.
1492
01:39:04,689 --> 01:39:09,527
They aren't letters
from the Jackie Robinson fan club.
1493
01:39:15,617 --> 01:39:18,870
"Get out of baseball
or your baby boy will die."
1494
01:39:19,913 --> 01:39:22,916
"Quit baseball or your nigger wife..."
1495
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:31,466
"Get out of the game or be killed."
1496
01:39:34,219 --> 01:39:35,637
Does Jackie know?
1497
01:39:35,804 --> 01:39:38,056
Well, of course he does.
1498
01:39:38,223 --> 01:39:39,933
And the FBI.
1499
01:39:40,433 --> 01:39:43,228
They're taking a threat in Cincinnati
pretty seriously.
1500
01:39:43,395 --> 01:39:48,358
So excuse me if I don't get too upset
about you getting called a carpetbagger.
1501
01:39:48,692 --> 01:39:50,151
You should be proud.
1502
01:39:53,822 --> 01:39:56,658
Well, I'd just like to play ball, sir.
That's all.
1503
01:39:57,158 --> 01:39:58,910
Oh, I understand.
1504
01:39:59,077 --> 01:40:01,746
I bet Jackie just wants to play ball.
1505
01:40:01,913 --> 01:40:05,000
I bet he wishes he wasn't leading
the League in hit by pitch.
1506
01:40:05,166 --> 01:40:08,086
I bet he wishes people didn't want
to kill him.
1507
01:40:09,212 --> 01:40:11,881
The world's not so simple anymore.
1508
01:40:12,924 --> 01:40:14,926
Guess it never was.
1509
01:40:15,468 --> 01:40:17,095
We just, uh...
1510
01:40:18,179 --> 01:40:20,765
Baseball ignored it, now we can't.
1511
01:40:26,271 --> 01:40:27,522
Yes, sir.
1512
01:40:27,856 --> 01:40:28,857
[CROWD CHEERING]
1513
01:40:29,024 --> 01:40:32,402
BARBER: No hits, no runs for
the Dodgers. The Reds are coming to bat.
1514
01:40:38,575 --> 01:40:41,119
How many times
do you think Pee Wee's gonna score?
1515
01:40:41,286 --> 01:40:42,454
Well, I don't know, son.
1516
01:40:42,620 --> 01:40:46,624
I remember when I was a kid, I saw Honus
Wagner play, scored three times that day.
1517
01:40:46,791 --> 01:40:49,961
- We'll just have to wait and see.
- Wow, that would be great.
1518
01:40:51,713 --> 01:40:53,715
[CROWD BOOING]
1519
01:40:54,799 --> 01:40:56,468
We don't want you here!
1520
01:40:56,634 --> 01:40:59,304
Hey! Hey, Nigger boy!
1521
01:40:59,471 --> 01:41:01,139
Get the hell out of Cincinnati!
1522
01:41:01,639 --> 01:41:03,349
We don't want you here!
1523
01:41:03,892 --> 01:41:05,435
Go back to Brooklyn!
1524
01:41:05,602 --> 01:41:06,978
MAN 1:
You the batboy, sambo?
1525
01:41:07,145 --> 01:41:08,730
MAN 2:
Hey, nigger! I'm talking to you!
1526
01:41:08,897 --> 01:41:12,358
Get the hell out of Cincinnati!
We don't want you here, boy!
1527
01:41:13,943 --> 01:41:15,612
Nigger!
1528
01:41:15,779 --> 01:41:17,614
We don't want you here!
1529
01:41:17,781 --> 01:41:21,659
Cincinnati fans expressing their
displeasure as the Dodgers take the field.
1530
01:41:21,826 --> 01:41:24,621
Jackie Robinson at first.
"The Brat" Eddie Stanky at second.
1531
01:41:24,788 --> 01:41:27,916
Spider Jorgensen at third. And
the captain, Pee Wee Reese, at short.
1532
01:41:28,666 --> 01:41:33,671
Fans, ask any man and they'll tell you,
the Gillette Superspeed razor is a honey.
1533
01:41:33,838 --> 01:41:36,132
Maybe the sweetest shaving razor
you'll ever use.
1534
01:41:36,299 --> 01:41:38,968
Look sharp, feel sharp, be sharp.
1535
01:41:39,177 --> 01:41:40,720
MAN 3:
We don't want no niggers here!
1536
01:41:40,887 --> 01:41:43,848
They can say all they want.
We're just here to play ball.
1537
01:41:44,015 --> 01:41:45,558
MAN 4:
Get him off the field!
1538
01:41:45,725 --> 01:41:49,479
It's just a bunch of crackpots
still fighting the Civil War.
1539
01:41:49,938 --> 01:41:53,441
Well, we'd have won that son of a gun
if the cornstalks would have held out.
1540
01:41:53,608 --> 01:41:55,610
We just ran out of ammunition.
1541
01:41:56,945 --> 01:41:58,863
Better luck next time, Pee Wee.
1542
01:42:02,617 --> 01:42:04,327
Ain't gonna be a next time, Jackie.
1543
01:42:04,494 --> 01:42:06,704
MAN 5:
Hey, Reese! Carpetbagger!
1544
01:42:06,871 --> 01:42:11,251
All we got's right here. Right now.
You know what I mean?
1545
01:42:13,503 --> 01:42:14,963
Thank you, Jackie.
1546
01:42:17,006 --> 01:42:18,716
What are you thanking me for?
1547
01:42:21,970 --> 01:42:24,347
I got family up there from Louisville.
1548
01:42:26,516 --> 01:42:28,143
I need them to know.
1549
01:42:29,769 --> 01:42:31,729
I need them to know who I am.
1550
01:42:39,821 --> 01:42:41,072
Hey, number 1!
1551
01:42:41,781 --> 01:42:43,825
You playing ball or socializing?
1552
01:42:44,284 --> 01:42:45,618
[SCOFFS]
1553
01:42:45,785 --> 01:42:46,953
Playing ball, ump.
1554
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:49,122
UMPIRE: Play ball!
MAN 6: Don't let them get to you!
1555
01:42:49,289 --> 01:42:50,748
Playing ball.
1556
01:42:51,875 --> 01:42:56,671
Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42.
That way they won't tell us apart.
1557
01:43:04,387 --> 01:43:06,264
MAN 7:
Come on, Jackie!
1558
01:43:07,432 --> 01:43:08,474
[CHATTERING]
1559
01:43:15,857 --> 01:43:17,483
Let me ask you something, Jackie.
1560
01:43:17,650 --> 01:43:20,945
How come you never shower
until everybody else is done?
1561
01:43:23,573 --> 01:43:24,699
What are you, shy?
1562
01:43:29,454 --> 01:43:31,623
I don't want to make anyone feel
uncomfortable.
1563
01:43:32,373 --> 01:43:34,834
We're a team. On a hot streak.
1564
01:43:35,001 --> 01:43:37,462
Come on, half those wins
were on account of you.
1565
01:43:38,546 --> 01:43:40,256
You're the bravest guy I ever saw.
1566
01:43:43,885 --> 01:43:46,763
You're leading us,
you're afraid to take a shower? Heh.
1567
01:43:53,645 --> 01:43:55,772
Come on, take a shower with me, Jackie.
1568
01:44:00,318 --> 01:44:02,237
I didn't mean it like...
1569
01:44:07,325 --> 01:44:10,662
That came out wrong. I was not saying
just take a shower with me.
1570
01:44:10,828 --> 01:44:13,498
I was saying, why don't we all go
and take a shower.
1571
01:44:13,665 --> 01:44:14,666
- Like, Why--?
- Heh.
1572
01:44:14,832 --> 01:44:17,460
As a team,
why don't we shower together.
1573
01:44:17,627 --> 01:44:20,129
- Heh. Branca?
- Yeah.
1574
01:44:22,173 --> 01:44:25,301
- Stop.
- Yeah.
1575
01:44:26,594 --> 01:44:27,887
I'm stopping-
1576
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:59,961
We're in the last of a four-game
series with the Cardinals.
1577
01:45:00,128 --> 01:45:04,382
These two teams are in a dogfight for first.
Top of the 11th now, all tied up at 2.
1578
01:45:04,549 --> 01:45:07,176
For those of you just tuning in,
how did we get here?
1579
01:45:07,343 --> 01:45:08,886
Well, it's been double trouble...
1580
01:45:09,053 --> 01:45:12,265
...as Robinson knocked in Stanky
with a double in the 3rd.
1581
01:45:12,432 --> 01:45:13,975
MAN 1:
Shoot two! Shoot two!
1582
01:45:14,142 --> 01:45:16,644
BARBER: And Dixie Walker did
the same with a double in the 8th.
1583
01:45:16,811 --> 01:45:18,354
[CROWD CHEERING]
1584
01:45:18,521 --> 01:45:20,106
Second base! Second base!
1585
01:45:20,273 --> 01:45:21,441
BARBER".
But it wasn't enough...
1586
01:45:21,607 --> 01:45:24,527
...as the Cardinals
tied it up with two of their own in the 9th.
1587
01:45:24,694 --> 01:45:27,113
This game is crucial to the Red Birds.
1588
01:45:27,280 --> 01:45:28,489
They are five games out...
1589
01:45:28,656 --> 01:45:32,410
...with the Dodgers not having
relinquished first place since June 30th.
1590
01:45:33,036 --> 01:45:34,704
They call him "Country."
1591
01:45:34,871 --> 01:45:38,750
Slaughter's hitless in four trips. "Fireman"
Casey in his second inning of relief.
1592
01:45:38,916 --> 01:45:41,919
This game is just as tight
as a new pair of shoes on a rainy day.
1593
01:45:42,086 --> 01:45:44,088
Casey goes into his windup.
1594
01:45:45,214 --> 01:45:48,551
Slaughter hits a hard ground ball right at
Reese, who fires it over to Jack at first.
1595
01:45:48,718 --> 01:45:50,053
[JACKIE GROAN S]
1596
01:45:50,219 --> 01:45:51,387
BARBER:
Oh, my!
1597
01:45:51,554 --> 01:45:56,476
Robinson is down. Slaughter spiked him
high up on the leg and he is down.
1598
01:45:56,642 --> 01:45:59,437
MAN 2: Goddamn it! You knew
what you were doing! You spiked my guy!
1599
01:45:59,604 --> 01:46:01,022
Get up, Jackie.
1600
01:46:01,439 --> 01:46:03,524
Get him up, boys, get him up.
1601
01:46:03,691 --> 01:46:05,443
Stay off it. Team doc will be out.
1602
01:46:05,610 --> 01:46:09,030
Hugh, next guy up, you hit him right
in the head. You clean his clock.
1603
01:46:09,197 --> 01:46:11,616
- No. Get me up.
MAN 3: No, lay down, man. You're staying.
1604
01:46:11,783 --> 01:46:13,618
No. Get me up!
1605
01:46:15,620 --> 01:46:16,996
Easy, kid.
1606
01:46:17,163 --> 01:46:18,956
[CROWD CHEERING]
1607
01:46:19,123 --> 01:46:20,625
Just get him out.
1608
01:46:20,792 --> 01:46:22,418
[PANTING]
1609
01:46:22,585 --> 01:46:24,128
Just get him out.
1610
01:46:24,295 --> 01:46:25,296
Understand?
1611
01:46:27,757 --> 01:46:29,133
Game's too important.
1612
01:46:31,219 --> 01:46:32,845
Just get him out.
1613
01:46:33,721 --> 01:46:34,847
Go play ball.
1614
01:46:35,014 --> 01:46:37,350
- You a tough man, Jackie.
STANKY: Let's get him out.
1615
01:46:37,517 --> 01:46:39,477
Jackie, what are saying?
He spiked you on purpose?
1616
01:46:39,644 --> 01:46:40,770
[JACKIE GROANING]
1617
01:46:40,937 --> 01:46:42,438
You saw the play.
1618
01:46:42,605 --> 01:46:45,942
My foot was on the inside of the bag,
he was out, but he kept coming.
1619
01:46:46,109 --> 01:46:48,653
- It was on purpose?
- Slaughter said it was an accident.
1620
01:46:48,820 --> 01:46:50,321
What are you asking me for then?
1621
01:46:50,488 --> 01:46:52,782
- Are you calling Slaughter a liar?
MAN: Is he a liar?
1622
01:46:52,949 --> 01:46:55,827
Am I calling him a liar?
What are you gonna write?
1623
01:46:55,993 --> 01:46:59,664
- Get out of here! Get out!
- Come on, Rickey, let him finish the story!
1624
01:46:59,831 --> 01:47:01,666
RICKEY:
Go on, let me talk to my first baseman.
1625
01:47:01,833 --> 01:47:03,042
- Is he a liar, Jackie?
- Go!
1626
01:47:03,209 --> 01:47:06,003
- All right, all right.
- Getting stitched up, for Pete's sake.
1627
01:47:06,170 --> 01:47:08,506
Just trying to do our job, Rickey.
1628
01:47:15,430 --> 01:47:18,015
RICKEY: Looks good, Babe.
BABE: Thank you, sir.
1629
01:47:18,516 --> 01:47:22,395
Sticking up for himself
is something you'd expect of any man.
1630
01:47:25,731 --> 01:47:29,026
Some find it galling in a Negro.
1631
01:47:34,490 --> 01:47:35,992
[SIGHS]
1632
01:47:41,038 --> 01:47:43,291
You know what I saw this morning?
1633
01:47:44,917 --> 01:47:49,046
I was passing a sandlot,
little white boy was up at bat.
1634
01:47:49,464 --> 01:47:51,048
[CHUCKLES]
1635
01:47:51,215 --> 01:47:53,050
You know what he was doing?
1636
01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:56,471
Sitting on a fastball?
1637
01:47:56,637 --> 01:47:58,222
He was pretending he was you.
1638
01:47:59,307 --> 01:48:01,350
Rubbing dirt on his hands.
1639
01:48:01,559 --> 01:48:05,980
Swinging with his arms outstretched,
like you do.
1640
01:48:06,147 --> 01:48:10,776
Little white boy
pretending he is a black man.
1641
01:48:12,695 --> 01:48:14,572
[SIGHS]
1642
01:48:17,074 --> 01:48:19,160
Why'd you do this, Mr. Rickey?
1643
01:48:22,288 --> 01:48:23,748
[RICKEY SIGHS]
1644
01:48:33,090 --> 01:48:35,885
We had a victory over fascism
in Germany.
1645
01:48:36,052 --> 01:48:39,639
It's time we had a victory
over racism at home.
1646
01:48:39,805 --> 01:48:41,182
No.
1647
01:48:41,766 --> 01:48:43,142
Why?
1648
01:48:44,894 --> 01:48:46,020
Why'd you do it?
1649
01:48:49,941 --> 01:48:51,275
Come on.
1650
01:48:52,485 --> 01:48:54,153
Tell me.
1651
01:48:56,948 --> 01:48:58,616
I love this game.
1652
01:48:59,867 --> 01:49:01,744
I love baseball.
1653
01:49:03,621 --> 01:49:05,623
Given my whole life to it.
1654
01:49:08,459 --> 01:49:13,506
Forty-odd years ago, I was a player-coach
at Ohio Wesleyan University.
1655
01:49:14,131 --> 01:49:18,219
We had a Negro catcher.
Best hitter on the team.
1656
01:49:18,886 --> 01:49:21,931
Charlie Thomas. Fine young man.
1657
01:49:22,473 --> 01:49:27,311
I saw him laid low, broken,
because of the color of his skin.
1658
01:49:27,478 --> 01:49:29,480
And I didn't do enough to help.
1659
01:49:29,647 --> 01:49:32,024
Told myself I did, but I didn't.
1660
01:49:33,150 --> 01:49:38,447
There was something unfair
at the heart of the game I loved.
1661
01:49:38,656 --> 01:49:39,991
And I ignored it.
1662
01:49:44,662 --> 01:49:46,414
But a time came...
1663
01:49:47,331 --> 01:49:49,667
...when I could no longer do that.
1664
01:49:53,170 --> 01:49:54,755
You...
1665
01:49:57,300 --> 01:49:59,885
You let me love baseball again.
1666
01:50:05,558 --> 01:50:06,851
Thank you.
1667
01:50:07,476 --> 01:50:08,519
[CLEARS THROAT]
1668
01:50:14,317 --> 01:50:17,069
JACKIE:
Last long road trip of the year.
1669
01:50:18,279 --> 01:50:20,740
And two long faces, huh?
1670
01:50:36,255 --> 01:50:38,299
Try not to lunge at the plate.
1671
01:50:40,217 --> 01:50:41,677
You serious?
1672
01:50:41,844 --> 01:50:44,680
That's why they're throwing
the fastballs inside.
1673
01:50:45,931 --> 01:50:48,225
Fight those inside fastballs off...
1674
01:50:48,392 --> 01:50:52,647
...sooner or later they won't be able
to help but throw a curve.
1675
01:50:53,898 --> 01:50:56,233
And what'll happen then, coach?
1676
01:50:56,609 --> 01:50:57,735
[IMITATES BALL BEING HIT]
1677
01:50:57,902 --> 01:50:59,779
[IMITATES CROWD'S CHEER]
1678
01:51:00,738 --> 01:51:02,198
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
1679
01:51:03,240 --> 01:51:05,076
- Is that right?
- Mm-hm.
1680
01:51:06,077 --> 01:51:09,580
Well, you know,
if we win enough of these next games...
1681
01:51:10,081 --> 01:51:11,832
...we bring home the pennant.
1682
01:51:13,125 --> 01:51:15,002
You bring yourself home.
1683
01:51:16,087 --> 01:51:17,713
That'll be plenty.
1684
01:51:19,006 --> 01:51:20,591
You're in my heart.
1685
01:51:23,969 --> 01:51:27,390
SMITH: Since the 4th of July, the Brooklyn
Dodgers have gone on a hot streak...
1686
01:51:27,556 --> 01:51:30,059
...holding off all challengers.
1687
01:51:30,434 --> 01:51:32,269
During that time
and during this season...
1688
01:51:32,436 --> 01:51:35,022
...I have watched Jackie Robinson
submerge himself...
1689
01:51:35,189 --> 01:51:36,857
...to serve something greater.
1690
01:51:38,567 --> 01:51:41,779
And I don't mean the Brooklyn Dodgers,
though he's doing that too.
1691
01:51:42,613 --> 01:51:45,741
The man flat-out has guts.
1692
01:51:45,908 --> 01:51:49,203
A stand-up force of nature,
he's complicated everything but himself.
1693
01:51:49,370 --> 01:51:52,790
He's changing the world
and refusing to let it change him.
1694
01:51:54,375 --> 01:51:56,252
But baseball isn't tennis.
1695
01:51:56,460 --> 01:51:58,170
It takes a team.
1696
01:51:59,130 --> 01:52:01,465
Joining together was a start.
1697
01:52:01,632 --> 01:52:03,801
Staying together, a big step forward.
1698
01:52:03,968 --> 01:52:06,137
But working together is how you win.
1699
01:52:06,303 --> 01:52:07,555
Gut!
1700
01:52:07,722 --> 01:52:09,181
[G ROANS]
1701
01:52:09,348 --> 01:52:11,308
Jackie, you son of a gun,
I could kiss you!
1702
01:52:11,475 --> 01:52:12,643
Nice catch.
1703
01:52:12,810 --> 01:52:14,270
Yours or mine? Heh.
1704
01:52:14,812 --> 01:52:17,481
SMITH: Down the stretch
on the last long road trip of the year...
1705
01:52:17,648 --> 01:52:20,985
...Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn
Dodgers are doing exactly that.
1706
01:52:21,819 --> 01:52:25,072
They're holding off the Cardinals
and streaking towards the pennant.
1707
01:52:27,825 --> 01:52:30,327
Boss, we did it.
1708
01:52:30,494 --> 01:52:32,705
We did it, we swept Cincinnati!
1709
01:52:32,872 --> 01:52:34,290
RICKEY [OVER PHONE]:
Great, Harold.
1710
01:52:34,457 --> 01:52:36,333
One more win could do it.
1711
01:52:36,500 --> 01:52:38,502
Who's pitching tomorrow
for the Pirates?
1712
01:52:39,670 --> 01:52:41,338
Ostermueller.
1713
01:52:44,091 --> 01:52:46,010
BARBER".
Fritz Ostermueller on the mound.
1714
01:52:46,177 --> 01:52:47,845
He's 12-8 on the season.
1715
01:52:48,012 --> 01:52:50,222
A big game today in Pittsburgh.
1716
01:52:50,389 --> 01:52:53,601
A win and the Dodgers will have clinched
the National League pennant...
1717
01:52:53,768 --> 01:52:56,353
...Yankees having already clinched
in the American League.
1718
01:52:56,520 --> 01:52:57,688
There's bad blood here...
1719
01:52:57,855 --> 01:53:01,525
...as Ostermueller beaned Robinson
in the head earlier in the season...
1720
01:53:01,692 --> 01:53:04,236
...prompting quite a rhubarb at the time.
1721
01:53:05,946 --> 01:53:07,865
Teams have gone
their separate ways since...
1722
01:53:08,032 --> 01:53:10,534
...with Ostermueller left standing
in the Dodgers' way...
1723
01:53:10,701 --> 01:53:13,287
...as they chase the pennant
that eluded them last year.
1724
01:53:13,454 --> 01:53:15,247
Come on, Jackie, let's go!
1725
01:53:19,543 --> 01:53:20,711
BARBER".
Here comes the pitch.
1726
01:53:21,337 --> 01:53:23,380
And Robinson takes outside. Ball one.
1727
01:53:23,547 --> 01:53:26,926
- Come on, Fritz, let's get this boy!
- You don't belong here.
1728
01:53:27,134 --> 01:53:28,636
And you never will.
1729
01:53:28,803 --> 01:53:30,471
BARBER'.
Robinson crowding the plate.
1730
01:53:30,638 --> 01:53:32,932
Jack hasn't backed down
to a pitcher all season.
1731
01:53:33,098 --> 01:53:34,141
MAN:
There you go, Jackie!
1732
01:53:34,308 --> 01:53:38,562
You got nothing for him, Ostermueller!
But he's got something for you!
1733
01:53:40,898 --> 01:53:42,900
BARBER".
Ostermueller winds and throws.
1734
01:53:43,067 --> 01:53:44,860
Low and away, ball two.
1735
01:53:45,110 --> 01:53:47,112
Fritz seems
to be pitching around Jackie...
1736
01:53:47,279 --> 01:53:50,241
...or as they say in the trade,
trying to get him to chase.
1737
01:53:50,407 --> 01:53:52,409
Robinson's having
a fine rookie standard...
1738
01:53:52,576 --> 01:53:55,621
...batting .301 with 31 doubles
and 10 home runs.
1739
01:53:55,788 --> 01:53:58,916
He has stolen 27 bases this season
and has yet to be thrown out attempting.
1740
01:53:59,083 --> 01:54:00,709
[OSTERMUELLER GRUNTS]
1741
01:54:00,876 --> 01:54:03,212
Needless to say,
Ostermueller being careful with him.
1742
01:54:05,256 --> 01:54:06,966
BARBER: [OVER RADIO]
It's 3-0 now.
1743
01:54:07,508 --> 01:54:10,427
Robinson patient,
waiting for something he can swing on.
1744
01:54:10,928 --> 01:54:12,429
Give me something.
1745
01:54:13,889 --> 01:54:15,391
Give me something I can hit.
1746
01:54:15,558 --> 01:54:16,767
You want it?
1747
01:54:16,934 --> 01:54:18,477
What are you afraid of?
1748
01:54:28,320 --> 01:54:30,114
What are you afraid of?
1749
01:54:32,157 --> 01:54:33,951
BARBER'.
Ostermueller looking in for the sign.
1750
01:54:34,118 --> 01:54:36,745
Be careful what you ask for, boy.
1751
01:54:41,542 --> 01:54:43,460
BARBER".
And here comes the pitch.
1752
01:54:46,213 --> 01:54:47,256
[CROWD CHEERING]
1753
01:54:47,423 --> 01:54:49,592
Oh, and that's a deep fly ball to left.
1754
01:54:49,758 --> 01:54:52,011
Kiner on his horse,
I don't think he'll get there.
1755
01:54:52,177 --> 01:54:53,721
Back, back, back, and...
1756
01:54:53,888 --> 01:54:56,348
Oh, ho, ho, doctor!
1757
01:54:56,515 --> 01:54:58,642
Robinson got his pitch!
1758
01:54:58,809 --> 01:55:00,060
It's a home run.
1759
01:55:00,227 --> 01:55:01,270
[CHEERING]
1760
01:55:01,437 --> 01:55:02,771
And barring a miracle comeback...
1761
01:55:02,938 --> 01:55:05,816
...the Dodgers are going
to the World Series!
1762
01:55:05,983 --> 01:55:06,984
WOMAN:
Yes!
1763
01:55:07,151 --> 01:55:08,485
[ALL CHEERING]
1764
01:55:08,652 --> 01:55:09,987
He did it, he did it!
1765
01:55:15,659 --> 01:55:17,703
[CROWD CHEERING]
1766
01:55:21,665 --> 01:55:23,334
Pittsburgh!
1767
01:55:27,338 --> 01:55:28,380
Yes!
1768
01:55:28,672 --> 01:55:30,341
Way to go, Jackie!
1769
01:55:33,344 --> 01:55:36,722
BARBER". Jack in his home run trot now,
and the home crowd here at Forbes...
1770
01:55:36,889 --> 01:55:39,475
...recognizing something special
when they see it.
1771
01:55:39,642 --> 01:55:41,852
All the same,
I can practically hear the roar...
1772
01:55:42,019 --> 01:55:44,521
...from the heart of Flatbush back
in Brooklyn.
1773
01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:22,393
WOMAN:
Jackie, yeah, yeah!
1774
01:56:22,559 --> 01:56:26,522
Robinson rounds third...
1775
01:56:30,109 --> 01:56:32,236
...headed for home...
1776
01:56:33,445 --> 01:56:35,447
...sweet home.
1777
02:08:10,433 --> 02:08:12,435
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