Im ellee pai hong. And im kerry sayers and im your host, bill kurtis. This is baseballs greats through the decades. Today here on through the decades we are taking the hour to look at the boys of october and the game they love. Baseball has proved to be a muse for poets, musicians and authors and moviemakers. You can debate whether its still americas favorite sport but its motions and rhythms are so ingrained in our american psyche, it will forever be our National Pastime. Joins us as we look back on the greats of the game who have earned their place not only in baseball lore but enshrined in the american story itself. So we begin with a young player in new york. As popular legend goes, in june, 1925, wally pipp, the new york yankees long time first skipper recommended he take a seat to let the kid play. An easy decision at the time with the yanks struggling. It also proved to jump start an unbelievable streak and the career for the kid we would know as lou gehrig. Today, i consider my
And im kerry sayers and im your host, bill kurtis. This is baseballs greats through the decades. Today here on through the decades we are taking the hour to look at the boys of october and the game they love. Baseball has proved to be a muse for poets, musicians and authors and moviemakers. You can debate whether its still americas favorite sport but its motions and rhythms are so ingrained in our american psyche, it will forever be our National Pastime. Joins us as we look back on the greats of the game who have earned their place not only in baseball lore but enshrined in the american story itself. So we begin with a young player in new york. As popular legend goes, in june, 1925, wally pipp, the new york yankees long time first baseman, had a headache and his skipper recommended he take a seat to let the kid play. An easy decision at the time with the yanks struggling. It also proved to jump start an unbelievable streak and the career for the kid we would know as lou gehrig. Today,
Halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. Walmart committed 2 billion to fighting hunger in the u. S. As we Work Together, we can stamp hunger out. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis more than a decade before civil rights activists took to the streets to challenge jim crow laws, branch rickey, general manager of the then brooklyn dodgers, and played by Harrison Ford in the movie 42, went up against a wall of segregation and brought in Jackie Roosevelt Robinson to integrate americas then all white pastime. It was a courageous move by both men. Robinson endured horrendous opposition, of course, from racially charged taunts to death threats, all the while triumphing on the field. Rickey took on the baseball establishment, defied owners, general managers, and fans. That important piece of history is front and center in 42, a movie that celebrates how rickey and robinson changed america. Before we start our convers
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Opened. That was one of the most powerful scenes in the entire movie, in part i think because even though people know the story, the top line of the story of what rickey did and what robinson did, the rationale for why he did it, that scene was so powerful to me. Well, i think he had a combination of motives. He was a very religious man, devout methodist, and i think he had a number of motivations besides the ethical and moral feelings that he had, and im not so sure it had a lot to do with race, because he grew up in a context where there was race prejudice. But as well, he was a baseball businessman, and he wanted access to the rich pool of talent that were in the negro leagues, and robinson, as he said in the film, was only the first. Very quickly, others were signed from the negro leagues. So i think it was a number of motivations. Whichever one predominated, i dont think we know. Tavis but he was honest about that. Throughout the movie he kept saying money, money, money. Yeah. Tav