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The year saw the release of a film biography of Robinson's life, The Jackie Robinson Story, in which Robinson played himself, and actress Ruby Dee played Rachel "Rae" (Isum) Robinson. [160] The project had been previously delayed when the film's producers refused to accede to demands of two Hollywood studios that the movie include scenes of ...
29 Sports Shooting. 30 Sprinting. 31 Sumo Wrestling. ... This is a list of notable Filipino athletes. Alpine Skiers ... David Robinson-Polkey; Matthew Saunders ...
Nick Rimando – Filipino, Mexican American soccer player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer. [ 30 ] Tiffany Roberts – American soccer player and former member of the United States Women's National Soccer Team (Filipina mother).
The grandson of a slave, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born Jan. 31, 1919, in Cairo, Ga. After his father left, his mother moved the family to Calif., where Jackie excelled in high school sports.
American sports wouldn't be what they are today without the trailblazing black athletes of years past. From household names like Jackie Robinson to more recent history-makers like Vonetta Flowers ...
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyThe debut of Jackie Robinson at Ebbets Field on opening day of the 1947 baseball season was nothing short of a watershed moment in ...
The Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF) is a hall of fame established in 1999 to honor Filipino athletes, trainers, and coaches with the first batch of inductees included in the hall of fame in 2010. [1] The Philippine Sports Commission manages the operations of the hall of fame. [2]
Jackie Robinson’s debut for the Dodgers marked the breaking of the “color line” in modern major league baseball, the same color line within professional baseball that had been broken in 1884 ...