Jackie Robinson only special because he played sports

Guy Baldwin

 

I saw the Jackie Robinson movie the other day. I usually only see three movies a year and it has to be a topic that really interests me to get out and go for a movie. I grew up loving baseball though loathe it now. I have always been interested in the time period of cold war and America post world War II to Korean War. I liked this movie and Harrison Ford's acting of a really old man. He had gotten snotty with a Chicago young reporter asking him about baseball movies. Ford told him he didn't care about baseball and likes movies about men with integrity and so forth. of course the generation Y or Z sports addicted reporter youth of today mocked Ford in his article.
I liked the movie and really appreciated the part with Jackie coming out from tunnel unto the field. It was a whole new ballgame and era so to say and a very historical event for sports. Which got me to thinking if it were not for Jackie's ability to swing a bat and connect with a ball would anyone really cared about his struggle to begin with. Jackie would of been another footnote person forgotten in history if not for sports and maybe we need to reevaluate his importance in general. He is no Martin Luther King and had he been one he would of been leading black people in the civil rights struggle long before Dr King. Instead Jackie Robinson was just leading the dodgers to the pennant mostly in a quest to get a decent income for having a fun play job.