It was 1948, during Jackie Robinson's second season in Major League Baseball, when some bigots in Cincinnati were really giving him the business. Just the previous year, Robinson had been the one with the monumental
Is "42" right for your kids? Although it's rated PG-13, "42" is a fine pick for parents with kids ages 9 to 11 –- as long as they are mature enough to deal with the racial discrimination and slurs that are depicted in the biopic.
I'll catch the new Jackie Robinson movie, “42,” over the weekend—it's great, friends say—but I need no sports-clip reminders or careful re-creations to bring his front-footed swing or his shouldering, headlong style on the base paths clearly back
The actor tells THR that Rachel Robinson's stamp of approval felt like a “great, great compliment.”
Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play major league baseball. Learn more at Biography.com.
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