Spent a wonderful & educational morning at the Jackie Robinson museum in lower Manhattan (on Varick & Canal). It opened a couple of years ago but I had heard very little about it. Lots of great pictures & audio clips & a couple of short movies. Go now, while Rachel Robinson is still alive (age 103!) ~ she shows up every once in a while, I hear. I went with two knowledgeable baseball friends, one the former head of the research library at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, one a mover & shaker in the Babe Ruth museum in Baltimore as well as in women & sports, & it was great fun to catch up. The mission of the JRM is not simply to show his life as an athlete & his importance as the first Black player in modern baseball, but to showcase all he did for civil rights & Black advancement.
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