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Originally Posted by Marckus99
Of course Jackie belongs in the HOF....and so does his wife too, right?
Hell #42 has been retired, how about #1947 as well.
Actually we should make 4/15 a national holiday as well.
Let's start a religion as well, I mean he did suffer as much as Jesus.
Correct?
Because no one else in the history of baseball suffered as much as poor Jackie.
None of the Latin ball players from the 1910s or 1920s or 1930s suffered at all.....right?
We know what this is about, let's not be so naive.
- Mark
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What? Political correctness? I thought that notion was put to bed when it was noted that Robinson was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962. I can tell you that I was growing up in the South in 1962 and political correctness was the furthest thing from anyone's mind.