Any playing days Jackie Robinson is perfect. You just ask yourself which one YOU like, and in what condition. For me, personally, I love Jackie Robinson. He is in my top 5 ballplayers of all-time, and depending on when you ask me, he might number one. I think "42" is a great movie, and I think the stress and the weight he was carrying aged him more than anyone I have ever seen. A shame we don't hear more about Larry Doby over in the American League with the Indians. But it is very clear that Branch Rickey got the right man. If the events of the movie are even remotely accurate, then I have admiration for Leo Durocher, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie Stanky and Ralph Branch, and I believe Ben Chapman to be a pariah, and from what I have read, Enos Slaughter and Terry Moore, and later, Solly Hemus also.
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