Jackie Robinson

Review: A pleasant 'Cooperstown,' but questions stand out

2013-05-23 10:26:00

Jackie Robinson never appears in Brian Golden’s “Cooperstown,” currently enjoying its West Coast premiere at the Road Theatre Company’s shiny new second stage, but the very idea of him is enough to catalyze powerful changes for the...

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2013-05-17 11:00:00

We recently asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time, and vote you did, as we received an amazing 12,231 ballots. So many people voted that we have decided to expand the list from the top 10 to the top 20. Each weekday at...

Vin Scully is the true voice of Los Angeles

2013-05-14 00:00:00

My young colleague, Ben Welsh, who hails from Swisher, Iowa, by way of Columbia, Mo., and Washington, D.C., quickly caught on to what we native Angelenos know subliminally. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Scully: A May 14 Op-Ed about Vin Scully said...

Baseball is diamond in the rough to black players at Gardena Serra

2013-05-14 22:16:00

On a sunny Tuesday afternoon on a cluttered street in Gardena, some very big and skilled athletes are hanging out on a concrete basketball court, bouncing around underneath rusted backboards and chain nets, acting out a typical inner-city scene, with...

Letters: Fans want a new Blue, all right

2013-05-10 16:43:00

Check any correct answer to the following question: What is 42? a) the number worn by Jackie Robinson when he played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. b) a movie about Robinson's courage in breaking baseball's color barrier in 1947. c) the number of...

Tribeca 2013: In 'Trials of Muhammad Ali,' a counterpoint to '42'

2013-04-29 10:18:00

NEW YORK--When a championship boxer like Muhammad Ali felt disrespected by another fighter, he might have been expected to do what most boxers would: knock his opponent's lights out. But the icon took a different route when faced with a rival he...

Tom Cruise proves his box-office worth with No. 1 'Oblivion'

2013-04-21 08:51:00

After suffering a couple of box-office disappointments, Tom Cruise posted his first No. 1 film opening in years at the multiplex this weekend. The 50-year-old's science fiction flick "Oblivion" was the only new movie to hit theaters this weekend and...

Allan Graf's latest sport? Stunts in movies

2013-04-21 10:00:00

It may seem surprising that Allan Graf — the baseball coordinator, stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Warner Bros.' Jackie Robinson biographical drama "42" — first made his name on the gridiron. But that's precisely why Graf was...

The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 17: Branch Rickey

2013-04-25 11:00:00

Beginning April 11, we asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time. You could vote via comment, Facebook, Twitter or email. And vote you did. From then until April 21, when voting closed, we received an amazing 12,231 ballots....

Take a chance on Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder'

2013-04-17 17:04:00

It feels as if we've hit a major movie slump. So much this year has disappointed. I wasn't entranced with Danny Boyle's crime thriller "Trance." "42," Brian Helgeland's new drama based on baseball great Jackie Robinson's historic defiance of racial...

'Hank Greenberg' reveals resilience of early baseball legend

2013-04-17 10:45:00

The game of baseball seemed grandly American in the 1930s. Players had cherubic names — Birdie and Schoolboy, sounding like characters from a Broadway musical. Beneath the good times, though, breathed an awful hatred. In his new book, "Hank...

Baseball books cover the bases

2013-03-29 12:00:00

George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...

Junior varsity baseball and softball players raise their hands for a chance at answering a trivia question and winning a #42 Orioles jersey before a screening of "42", the movie about the life of Jackie Robinson.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Left to right, Kyra Brown, 15, freshman, Chardonnay Cooper, 15, sophomore, The Orioles Bird mascot, Kirea Sheppard, 15, sophomore and Bridget Smith, 15, freshman, share a laugh as the students enter Hoyt's West Nursery Cinemas.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

American professional baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919 - 1972) of the Brooklyn Dodgers, dressed in a road uniform, crouches by the base and prepares to catch a ball, 1951.

2013-04-23 13:12:24