NY Observer > Jackie Robinson http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/29000/feed Articles from Observer.com en Number 42 Is Number One Once More http://www.observer.com/node/37019 Every 10 years, we find more reasons to remember Jackie Robinson.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/37019#comments Arts & Culture Sports Brooklyn Jackie Robinson Jonathan Eig Major League Baseball Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:00:00 -0400 John Koblin 37019 at http://www.observer.com Dissing Jackie Robinson http://www.observer.com/node/33074 ESPN celebrated Jackie Robinson day by having no blacks at the desk for Baseball Tonight. 0-4.

The oversight was especially glaring because minutes before the network had (re)aired its splendid documentary on the high school career of black basketball player Sebastian Telfair, Through the Fire . The documentary horrifies by showing how much emphasis there is on sports in poor black neighborhoods. It ends, tragically, with a father drilling his young son over and over on the court, so the kid can some day follow in Telfair's footsteps. Fat chance.

ESPN could honor Jackie Robinson by getting the ratios behind the desks closer to the ratios on the field. And by promoting more black commentators without requiring that they be star athletes first. Harold Reynolds, Kenny Smith, and even Joe Morgan have all proved to be more impressive as commentators than they were in action.]]> http://www.observer.com/node/33074#comments ESPN Inc. Jackie Robinson Joe Morgan Sebastian Telfair Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:00:54 -0400 Observer Staff 33074 at http://www.observer.com Stadium Mania:An Exercise In Nostalgia http://www.observer.com/node/40499 Does it matter where the Yankees go? Surely one cause of the necrophilia of Brooklyn Dodgers fans-J  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/40499#comments Sports Jackie Robinson Manhattan New York Mets Sun, 10 May 1998 20:00:00 -0400 Richard Brookhiser 40499 at http://www.observer.com No Teacher's Pet, D'Amato Barks Again http://www.observer.com/node/39939 Alfonse D'Amato is running his mouth about schoolteachers again.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/39939#comments Alfonse D'Amato Frank Sinatra Jackie Robinson Northern Ireland Sun, 07 Dec 1997 19:00:00 -0500 Joe Conason 39939 at http://www.observer.com