Somewhere up in Heaven Jackie Robinson must be smiling big time.

Gobama!

Let's not forget the American Leaguer who went through much of the same crap Jackie did...

:cry:

there will be plenty of moments to cry tears of content and happiness over the next few months. :patriot:

Still eloquent as always, I see...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/04/obama.history/

Jackie Robinson was a republican.

...talking and, yes, smiling with Roy Campanella, as they made the long walk from the clubhouse to the dugout in the old Polo Grounds.

I saw Don Newcombe, and Joe Black, and all the boys of summer back then at Ebbets Field. That was my team.

And one time, I was at a Farmers Market on Long Island around that time, and who comes walking in my direction with a crowd around him, but Jackie Robinson....

I was very young back then, and I could never figure out - and still cannot, why the dumb asses that ran baseball waited so long to integrate. Thanks to Branch Rickey - the Brooklyn Dodgers owner...a man of vision.

One more thing. Being a Republican in those days was not the same as being a Republican today. It was a different Republican Party. Don't hold that against Jackie Robinson.