Jackie Robinson Steals Home
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For as important as breaking the color barrier was, it’s sometimes lost in the discourse that Jackie Robinson was really goddamn good as a ballplayer. Stealing home is hard—like, the base is where the pitch goes—and our hero did it in the World Series. Sure, 1955 was a good many years after 1947, but we’re willing to bet a bunch of baseball fans said, “golly gee willikers, Jackie Robinson just stole home!” in exactly the clean, wholesome language we associate with people using in the 1950s. God, Jackie Robinson was good.
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