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[Music] Hello and welcome to my favorite murder. That's Georgia Hardstar. Thank you. That's Karen Calcara. You're welcome and here we are presenting you what we call a solo episode. It's a gift to ourselves.

That's right. Essentially. That's right. We get to take a little break. We recorded advance. We do extra work in advance so that the future is brighter. We've all set by a pool and said, hey, isn't this nice? Yeah. We want that in our lives. That's right. A pool

or a stream. A fucking running sink. What do you think? Just stand near the sink, but your hands in the water. But you can't do that if you're podcasting, so we got to

“take a break. That's right. You have to work before you relax.”

That's right. That's the patriarchy and so. No, we're the literal business owners. We love this. This is one thing we can't like and blame on the patriarchy. Unfortunately, this is the Austrianarchy. Oh, I love that. Let's end it.

The Austrianarchy. That gives you pause. Right? We have to point in back. We have to point in back. So sick of her. She would only shut off. She just can't help herself.

This week, it's me who can't help herself and can't shut the fuck up by telling you a solo story. Let's see if I can shut the fuck up. I probably can't. And listen, it can't all be true, crime all the time. Explain yourself in at no time to no person.

I'm doing a task. That's just for the Austrian. Well, they say not good enough. Yeah, actually, they know as you can say that. Oh, she does. She's so tough. She's so mean. She talks a lot. Yeah, it's because she's a little sister.

Yeah, that's right. No one listens. So today, I'm going to do a story about a sports legend. Okay. Great. One of your favorite sports. Oh, yeah. Baseball. Who many would argue that this sports legend,

Babe Ruth? No. Why'd you open the door for the civil rights movement? What? This is the story of baseball legend Jackie Robinson. Hell, yeah. Do you know anything? I know. I know. I know. Well, absolutely.

And I've definitely watched a lot of documentaries with my dad that I would not myself have otherwise chosen. Yeah. But then when I watch, I'm like, I'm so glad I watched that. It's because Ken Burns can do no wrong. Yeah. Oh, right. You know.

Yeah. So the main source of the story is the Ken Burns documentary.

Jackie Robinson and the rest of the sources can be found in the show notes incredible.

So Jack Roosevelt Robinson is born. When you were a 31st, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia, to Malie and Jerry Robinson. And Theodore Roosevelt had died earlier in the month

“that Jack is born. So that's why his middle name is Roosevelt.”

It's a tribute to theodore Roosevelt. Oh, Jack has had weird to think that they were existed right at the same. They like did a fold over lap, right? That'll be my last comment. No, well, and I'm glad.

Jack is the youngest of five children and his father works as a sharecropper. At least two of Jack's grandparents had been enslaved. And I looked it up in the year he's born at least 21 African Americans are hanged in Georgia alone.

So we're deep in it. It's 1919, you know? They're not easy. And there's so much more that I've left out of this. We've just for time purposes.

So definitely watch the Ken Burns documentary. Everyone's like, yeah. We're just listening to you.

This isn't where we get this is going to be. They're playing this in schools. So the father Jerry winds up abandoning the family. Right around when Jack is six months old. And so left with five kids and there are a few options.

Malie has to come up with a plan to take care of her family. So when Jack is a year old, Malie moves the family to Pasadena. Oh, like right down the street from us. Yeah, right around the corner and like back then it was like all orange grows. And it is a really lovely community.

So Malie's brother lives there. And so Malie moves there with their children helping to find a better life. More opportunities. And less outright racism than is baked into the culture in Georgia. And while Pasadena is certainly less deadly, it's still very racist.

Malie works as a maid in a white family's house. And only two years after moving to Pasadena when Jack is three. Malie has saved up enough money to buy her own house. And she buys one in Pasadena on a street called Pepper Street, which is predominantly white. And so the neighbors are not welcoming.

And in quite little Pasadena, they burn a cross on her front lawn.

“I was going to say, because I remember we talked about something else.”

And I remember learning that Glendale was a sundown town. Right. And that lots and lots of places. Like yeah. It's a lie we tell ourselves that California somehow was filled with a bunch of cool hippies.

I love everybody. It's like no sundown town's left right in center. I mean, just horrifying 100%. I mean, it's why Altadena exists, because they were pushed out of Pasadena. Also, the neighbors call the cops on Jack's older brother. When he's roller skating on the sidewalk, just not good.

But Malie makes it known that she has no intentions of moving. And eventually, Jack himself falls in with what's called the Pepper Street gang, which is a group of kids from the neighborhood from minority backgrounds. They stick together, they get into low level mischief. They're playing baseball on the street and that kind of thing.

Yeah. Yeah.

When Jack is around 10, his classmates start to notice that he's an incredible baseball player.

And so they start sharing their lunches with him in order to get him to play on their team.

“But Jack isn't the first star athlete at the family.”

This is so interesting. Jack's older brother, Mack, is a track star. And he competes on the 1936 US Olympic team in Berlin. The one that Jesse Owens and other black athlete wins four gold medals. Yes.

And he in the 200 year dash, Mack comes in second to Jesse Owens. Wow. I know. What a standard to set. Exactly.

I mean, for everyone to see that and be like that's. And also, it was so mad. Yes, I know. I love that. It's so good.

But it also just makes me think about it. I'll just say this very quickly. But I just had this very old white lady realization. People talk about black excellence. It's because when you marginalize any group.

And you basically are just like, oh, no matter what you do, you won't be good enough.

Then it's just like, then the levels go up right up and up. You can't just be okay at something.

“You have to be the actual player to get anyone to take you seriously.”

He had to win the Olympics. So everyone on Pepper Street was cool with the Robinson family. Totally. Hello. We have incredible news.

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His athletic abilities draw immediate attention and he's recruited by basically any university that will accept black students. So a wealthy Stanford college alum offers to pay Jack's tuition at any school that he wants to go to. You can't go here. But we really don't want to ever play against you. That's how good you are.

But hold on a second. Don't you think this is a little bit of an insight into the way rich people have been bridging the game. Absolutely.

But I've never heard of that.

Yeah. That's cheating. This fucking crazy. And it's not like, well, why not just let black people and no, we just don't know. We don't do that for other reasons and because this would roll it many major west coast schools Jack turns the offer down and attends UCLA where he plays football basketball and baseball.

Wow. But in the spring during the baseball season, he also runs track so he's doing everything at UCLA where like the bar is high. You have to be good at everything. Yes. But also then that's great conditioning like in between your sport.

Totally. So that's for sports. He letters and all of them.

“So Ali wrote this in the research on one occasion during a football game.”

He had a 65 yard punt return. And I was like, I don't know what that means. And I don't know how to know if that's good or not. So I turned to those guys to be there. Go Vince.

What's a good punt return number. And he gave me some numbers. And then he goes like, he got like quote, quote, 40 is like, whoa. So I've been said. So 65 yard punt returned.

His blade is like a double. Yeah. And the University of Washington fans who are playing UCLA. They join in giving him a standing ovation when he does that against their team. Because it's so unheard of.

I know a lot of things make me cry. Yeah. But when the opposite team starts cheering and they go above and beyond. Yeah. They're like just competitions.

This is. Yeah. You have to give it up for this. So amazing. And he told me the average is nine to ten in pro.

And 40 is like whoa. Nine to ten yards. Yeah. For a pattern. Ask your dad.

I love learning.

“It's during his college sports career that the press gives him the name.”

Jackie, all of his family always calls him Jack.

So Jackie is just a nickname that he doesn't even. Oh, okay. So interesting. But I'm going to call him Jack since that's his name. Okay.

Well, they're covering his incredible talent. They often add an incredibly offensive racist tropes in their writing. Which surprises no one. During Jack's senior year, he meets a freshman nursing student. The name Rachel Isum and she's the daughter of a disabled world.

We're one vet actually wants to see some pictures. Yes, please. So let's see some pictures of Jackie sportsy pictures. There's like some good close-up photos of the. Yeah, there we go that one.

Wow. I know. I mean, it's so hard to be get it every sport. Totally. It's so crazy.

This is Jack with Rachel Isum, which will be his future wife. Oh, look at her. Is she not the cutest? They both have such perfect faces in their court. They're so gorgeous.

So sorry.

“You get to be good at every single sport and hot and super hot.”

A man get the cutest wife on the planet. So she's a nursing student. Rachel. She's the daughter of a disabled world. We're one vet and her mom owns her own very successful catering business.

And at this point, there's a small number of black students at UCLA. Rachel being one of them. And she knows of Jack, of course, because he's locally famous as the athlete. And she had expected him to be cocky and annoying because of this. Someone wanted to set them up.

She's pleasantly surprised.

Their first date is at the UCLA homecoming dance at the built more hotel.

And they quickly fall in love and become a serious couple. Imagine going to like a dance with the guy that's the star of every single sport and game. Yeah. She talks in the in the Ken Burns documentary. There's so much more about her.

I'm unhappy to have to leave out for time. But she talks about her expectations of him and how wrong she was because he was so great. Yeah. After Jack graduate, he moves to Honolulu to play for original football team called The Bears. He lives Honolulu on December 5, 1941, which you know is two days before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Mm-hmm. You were going to say that. I wasn't I wanted to interrupt you so badly. So he's at sea. It's like coming back home on a fucking ship when Pearl Harbor is attacked.

Wow. So he enlists in the army shortly after long story there. But in the end, he asks to leave the military and is granted an honorable discharge. After leaving the army, Jack goes to play baseball in what's called The Negro Leagues. While many of the players Jackie comes across are incredibly talented in this league.

He's frustrated by the lack of resources available to the teams. He's equally frustrated by the racist treatment his team gets when traveling. So there are some gas stations that won't allow black people to use the bathrooms. And so he implements this tradition where if they won't let us use the bathroom, we're not purchasing gas from them.

Yeah. And you know, it's the 30s and 40s. Money is needed for these gas stations. And so they end up getting to use the bathroom a lot of times. Yeah.

Because of this rule, because they stand up for themselves. Although the 30s and into the 40s, there's been discussion about integrating major league baseball. Mostly there's been pressure from black sports writers and progressive groups. But not a huge amount of interest within the MLB or many of the team managers.

Of course, there isn't an official rule keeping black players out of the major leagues. But there's an unspoken one. So a man named Branch Ricky, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. What was then the Brooklyn Dodgers? It was and later to become the Los Angeles Dodgers.

So I didn't know that. You've been to so many games. You had no idea. I actually have a Brooklyn Dodgers shirt. They like put out old-timey ones.

That's cool. Really cute. That's cute. That's why I got it. It's cute and I love fashion.

So this guy, Branch Ricky, of the Brooklyn Dodgers,

wants to be the first manager to sign a black player.

He wants this for a few reasons. The first is that he's a devout Christian. And he thinks it's the right thing to do.

And he wants those athletes playing on his team.

“So he's not a racist like everybody else essentially.”

Yeah, he's normal.

The third is that he thinks having black players will bring it more people to the ballpark.

He knows that they just they'd had this huge audience in black baseball fans that are not spending their money watching baseball. No value in the segregation whatsoever. There's no reason exactly. And this is at odds with the attitude over at the Yankees, also in New York, of course, who specifically do not want black baseball fans at the park.

And they make no secret of this. So Ricky starts to focus on Jack specifically. He's heard about several brushes with the law that Jack has had in the past. And he's actually drawn to this because he knows that whoever the first black player is in the major leagues is going to face significant pushback. So he wants someone who has experience with this.

And someone who can take it in a way and has the urge to fight back. But also has the strength to temper this urge. So has been tested and has come out a better person for it. So what's any black player? I mean, I like it.

No, that's a good point. Meanwhile, Jack and Rachel get married and February of 1946. He's 26 and she's 23.

“And for a season, he plays in Montreal with the Royals, which is the Dodgers farm team, kind of like a tryout team.”

And then later that year, he and Rachel have their first child together in him, Jackie Jr. What do you love? When you said Royale like that, I was going to say Royale with you.

I always say stop talking, stop it.

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Goodbye. For the following season in the spring of 1947, Jackie is called up to the major leagues and makes his debut at Evans Field with the Dodgers on April 15th. He was opening game against the Boston Braves, who would later move to Milwaukee and later at Milwaukee.

I know that whole journey same.

“Jackie does not get a hit, but he also doesn't strike out.”

In the bottom of the seventh inning, Jackie tries to hunt a runner ahead, which would generally result in him being thrown out. But he's, I don't know what I'm saying right now. But he's so fast. He forces a throwing error and gets on base because of that.

So getting on base. Yeah, it's big. He ends up scoring the go ahead run. And then it says in for Ali wrote, the run that breaks a tie putting the batting team in the lead. Got it.

And the Dodgers win five to three.

So he does win his first game even though he didn't score up.

Well, it sounds like he was kind of the reason that stuff scored though. Yeah, exactly. That's good. And it should be mentioned that the Dodgers at this time are often bad beginning each season with high hopes and generally ending in disappointment.

But the previous season, they had placed second in the national league. And the hope is that this will finally be their year. So teams vote to strike about the integration. But ultimately though, no teams actually strike. Instead, they play the games is scheduled.

But this means Jackie faces constant physical and verbal abuse from opposing players and fans. When the affiliates come to Abbott's field, their manager, Ben Chapman, not only joins his players and taunting Jackie from the dugout, but he leads the taunts. He relentlessly yells racist years at him throughout the entire game.

So he's playing against that too. Yeah. He also encounters physical abuse on the field. Pictures throw the ball at his head when he's batting. Jackie has to be moved from second base to first base to make it less likely. That runners will purposely slide into him with their spikes because you know,

you slide into second. Yeah. I know that. Into third. Did second and third.

Oh, good move to first. But it still happens several times during that first season, even though it's not fucking necessary. Yeah, no one's sliding into first and somehow he's still getting him exactly. Jackie's performance grows steadily better and better over the course of the season.

I mean, he's the guinea pig. He's the Ruby bridges of baseball. Right. And he's like, well, I'm going to, but he's not sitting here. He's a little proof of that.

Right. Yes. Yeah. He's getting hits and the Dodgers are winning games. Jackie plays with a level of speed and daring that is unusual in the major leagues.

But is more common in the Negro leagues where he first played professionally. So this is nothing for him. He's known for stealing bases, particularly for stealing home, which isn't normal. It requires perfect timing and judgment.

But this summer, the Dodgers are in first place in the National League.

attracting new black fans who want to watch and play in every city the Dodgers go to.

That must have been so exciting. Yeah.

“Finally, that's some photos from that era.”

Showman is military uniform. I don't know. Wow. Oh, the photo of him stealing a base. Yeah. Oh, my God.

So good. It almost makes you want to follow sports or something. This seems like they're doing exciting stuff over there. Yeah. That's crazy.

So that same summer, Cleveland and American League team also signs a black player. Larry Dobby. Now, major league baseball is integrating in both leagues because you know there's two of them. They play against each other and then whoever. That's right.

I know that. I sure do know that. After winning a series against the St. Louis Cardinals the Dodgers become the national league champions. Jackie has the most home runs doubles runs scored and has the most stolen bases in the entire national league. AKA fuck you.

Exactly. Come at me, bro. Yeah.

“The world series ends in heartbreak though when the Dodgers lose in seven games to the Yankees.”

Oh, that had a. Yeah. But they got there as so much further than they were. In the 1948 season Jackie hits about as well as he had previously but he has fewer stolen bases and the Dodgers don't do as well. But in 1949, they once again win the national league pennant but lose to the Yankees again in the world series.

In 1950 Jackie plays himself in the movie The Jackie Robinson story and this to some extent in trying some of the myths that are bandied about about Jackie never fighting back and whatnot. The reality during this era in his baseball career he was actually becoming more bold in challenging empires when they made bad calls against him, which were likely influenced by racism. Yeah. Yeah. My God.

At this point, there was a handful of black players scattered across the major league and several on the Dodgers on one occasion. An anonymous letter threatens to kill Jackie Robinson and Don newcom another black player if they enter the field in Cincinnati. FBI agents position themselves all over the stadium but nothing happens.

Throughout the first half of the 1950s the Dodgers have some great seasons but never get that world series win.

Jackie's also faced with a setback of being diagnosed at the age of 33 with diabetes and heart disease. He doesn't bring this diagnosis up with the team and with treatment he's still playing well. He and Rachel have two more children at this point Sharon and David actually let's see the family photo it's so cute. Oh my God. I bet there's a lot of pressure.

It's like your uncle was vanilla. Right. Right. Father is the best baseball player ever. Right.

While the Dodgers keep losing the world series to the Yankees Robinson is critical of the team as a racist institution. And points out in interviews that they have yet to integrate the Yankees. Well at this point many other teams in baseball have and Rachel herself says she finds this Northern flavor of racism even more in cities than in the south because it pretends not to be racist. That's fucking right on.

Yeah. She encounters it repeatedly when they try to buy a house in Westchester and in Connecticut and sellers either refuse to show their homes or yank them off the market when the Robinson's make it offer. Wait.

“I think you're about to tell my favorites.”

Not currently. So I went to do nothing. I didn't know this guy saw it. And it was just like, wait. What?

And then I was like, is this real? It's real. Finally. Yeah. Singer Carly Simon's mother Andrea Simon.

This blue. My mind too. Whose husband is co-owner of Simon and Schuster. Yeah. She's big money.

Yeah. That's the publishing place. I had no idea. Yeah. So this Carly Simon's family helps the Robinson's by property in Stanford, Connecticut and the Robinson's live with the Simon's while their house is being built.

So essentially, like, they went in and basically did all the paperwork as if they were the ones doing it.

Yeah. And got everything approved and then let them live there. Yeah. So incredible. That's like beyond just being friendly.

You know what I'm like? Yeah, exactly. Well, that's, you have your eyes on like a real future of how it's supposed to be as opposed to what it's like right now and then you're doing something to try to get there. Exactly. The Robinson kids are the first black kids in their school and they are excluded from country clubs, hockey rinks and dance school.

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In 1955, the Dodgers once again faced the Yankees in the World Series.

“Jackie and his mid 30s at this point is not as fast as he once was.”

I guess in baseball. That's old. It's very important. Yeah. But he still's home for the 19th time in his career during this series in game seven.

The Dodgers win earning the Dodgers their first championship and their 72 year history.

I just realized that in the other two times when they lost to the Yankees. That was Brooklyn versus New York City. Yeah. That had to be a fun thing. So intense.

That had to be wild. Crazy. Yeah. That had to be wild. So good for shows there.

I know that's good. Jackie plays one final season with the Dodgers helping them once again when the National League Championship. And they lose to the Yankees in the 1956 World Series. Unfortunately, Jackie retires at the age of 38. His legacy has opened the door for some of baseball's greatest players like Willie May.

“And I think Aaron, who will become legendary.”

In 1958, the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles because they don't agree with New York City planner Rob Moses's plan to move the stadium to Queens. Moses's vision for New York was car centric and achieving this vision to move to Queens would destroy a lot of minority neighborhoods. But, you know, let's talk about Chavez. We're being for a hot minute. But it's how they do it every time.

Yeah, we're going to put this freeway. Yeah, like that's not what this is about today, but let's not forget Chavez ravine. Which is a vibrant working class Mexican American community in Los Angeles at one point.

Anyway, in 1962, Jackie is inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame and is first year of eligibility.

Throughout the 1960s, he participates in the Civil Rights Movement. Joining Martin Luther King Jr. for many events and speaking engagements. The whole Robinson family attends the march on Washington in August of 1963. Jackie writes newspaper comms expressing his support for candidates who he thinks will further civil rights causes. Jackie also helps open the freedom national bank of black owned bank that focuses on securing loans for black people who were discriminated against by other financial institutions and the banks of big success.

In 1971, Jackie Robinson Jr. was the first child dies in a car accident at the age of 24. He had fought in Vietnam, struggled with and overcame a drug addiction after returning home and had become a counselor for other people battling addiction. Just one year later, Jackie Robinson dies at the age of 54 of a heart attack in October of 1972.

“His life, the amount of stress that man had to just deal with for his entire career in life is wild.”

For sure, crazy. Well, he's having a heart attack. He comes running out of his room. Hugs Rachel and says, "I love you to her as he sinks to the floor." Oh, she was the love of his wife. Oh, God.

Just nine days before his death, he had thrown out the ceremonial first pitch at the World Series in Cincinnati.

The city where he had received death threats 30 years earlier. Jackie had made a brief speech at the appearance saying, "I'm extremely proud and pleased to be here this afternoon. But must admit, I'm going to be tremendously more pleased and more proud when I look at that third base coaching line one day and see a black face managing in baseball." And quote, "This will happen a few years later in 1975." Many people believe that the integration of baseball was a pivotal moment that helped give rise to the later civil rights movement in the Ken Burns documentary.

President Barack Obama says, "Jackie Robinson laid the foundation for America to see its black citizens as subjects and not just objects. It meant that there were six and seven and eight year old boys who suddenly thought a black man was a hero." And quote, "Jackie's wife, Rachel Robinson, is still alive and recently celebrated her 104th birthday." What? In this past July, 26.

Did she still live in a house in Connecticut? I don't know. In 1973, after her husband's death, she started the Jackie Robinson Foundation, which provides scholarships and mentoring opportunities to minority students. She did this in addition to being a psychiatric nurse, like your mom. Hey there.

An assistant professor at Yale and a director of nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. This woman on her own is just legendary. If she's anything like my mother, she's not fucking around. She never remarried. Oh, don't know.

I know. I know it's hard. In 1997, Jackie's number 42 is retired from all of baseball, meaning that no player can wear it again.

I didn't know this, but Jackie's the only player to have his number retired across all of baseball.

She's going to cry, you guys. Well, I was going to yell, fuck all y'all. But that's because I really just want to cry. Because this is a man who then he had to be the cutting edge. He had to be, he was the tool by which all of that integration happened.

And then he got to live to see the day where it was happening. Yeah, and it was real on April 15th each year, the anniversary of Jackie's first major league game. All major league players were special uniforms with his number 42 and observance of Jackie Robinson day. And that is the story of baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

“Well, I mean, I think this change of pace suits us.”

Yeah, because we get to enjoy a new thing.

We get to meet a hero. I've watched some stuff on Jackie Robinson, but it is just so incredible to hear the details of what a difficult life adds up to.

The thing you can't imagine or think about or rarely do when you're in the shit is that the shit is the stairs by which you climb up to the top. Yeah, and you got to get in there and do it. Yeah, definitely. And the inspiration you can be to other people. You can play first base, Georgia. Me? Yes, or third.

No, thank you. Yes, you can. I'll get a hot dog. Could you hand up, chair it on? Could you?

No, I'm just on this team. Get serious. Um, amazing. Well, yeah, what are you talking about?

“Thank you so much. I was excited to do that one.”

That is a solo episode. When will it come out? Who knows? What will happen? Oh, my God.

Well, until that happens, stay sexy. And don't get murdered. Good bye. Hey, Elvis, do you want a cookie? Ah!

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