Yes, Virginia, there was a Jackie Robinson

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Scott Marks, March 14, 2013

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Neither Brooks, nor Edward G., nor Smokey, nor Bojangles, nor Crusoe, nor Phil Alden, nor Holly Peete: it's real-life Brooklyn Dodgers power hitter (and the first black man ever to cross the professional baseball color barrier), Jackie Robinson!

Neither Brooks, nor Edward G., nor Smokey, nor Bojangles, nor Crusoe, nor Phil Alden, nor Holly Peete: it's real-life Brooklyn Dodgers power hitter (and the first black man ever to cross the professional baseball color barrier), Jackie Robinson!

Is 42 the name of an upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic or the I.Q. of the nitz who felt the need to include the following claim in the trailer:

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I can understand it when people fail to recall that it was George Robinson who photographed Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man and Cobra Woman, but baseball great Jackie Robinson a fictional character?!

Here are some other updated posters for those who still eat their soup with a knife.

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Colonna March 15, 2013 @ 2:52 p.m.

Han Solo as Branch Rickey... HAH!

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