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Funniest line in 42

posted 10 years ago by stanleybix-1
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Ralph Branca's "Take a shower with me Jackie"!!

"Irwin, we're gonna' have to kill him"!

[–] entervine-360-653594 10 years ago

"Is that because his heel bone is longer?"

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[–] kag2 10 years ago

Burt Shotton.

But after Durocher was suspended before the 1947 season began, Clyde Sukeforth managed the team for the first two games before Shotton came aboard - reluctantly due to a promise to his wife not to manage again.

Also, a year later when Durocher returned (before leaving for the NY Giants in mid-season) he was annoyed that Robinson was now overweight. Apparently Robinson had attended so many black-community dinners in the off season that the mashed potatoes and apple pie got to him.

[–] Dark_Sithlord 9 years ago

"Oh, yessir! I'ma gittin'! I'ma gittin'!!"

[–] badge7213 9 years ago

When it's suggested to Jackie Robinson that he and Ben Chapman shake hands for a press-op photo -

Wendell Smith: "Have you been drinking?"

Harold Parrott: "No. . . heh . . . I wish."

[–] dakowill11 8 years ago

I saw this the other night on TV not realizing Harrison Ford was starring in it. I've never been into baseball myself, or any sports really, but I found this such an inspirational story well told. That shower scene was probably the most funniest scene in the entire film! I was thinking to myself, "He said what?!" How embarrassment! But, my favorite line in the film was Rickey's counsel to Robinson: "I want a player who's got the guts not to fight back...Echo a curse with a curse and, uh, they'll hear only yours...Your enemy will be out in force and you cannot meet him on his own low ground. We win with hitting, running, fielding. Only that. We win if the world is convinced of two things—that you are a fine gentleman and a great baseball player! Like our Saviour, you gotta have the guts to turn the other cheek." So eloquently put! I was thinking, "Preach it Rickey!" And especially in our day with people reacting all slighted on the merest whim over someone's ignorant or insensitive remarks about race, class or religion it's advise that I feel is woefully needed as much now as it was back then