Jackie Robinson Gives Final Speech at 1972 World Series - Hoped to See a Black MLB Manager

[@davidnoticiero6728]

My heart hurts knowing Jackie was dying but he still stood strong with dignity and continued to push to further the cause of full integration of baseball

[@ronaldnixon8226]

Why do we need integration? Thing's were fine when we had Chirstian law, seperate but equal.

[@Inktownicon]

@@ronaldnixon8226 why’d you feel the need to comment?

[@ronaldnixon8226]

@@Inktownicon Because Donald Trump is are leader!

[@GodCarnage]

@@Inktowniconbecause integration destroyed a multi million dollar BLACK industry that was more popular than MBL. Now all the best players are black but all the OWNERS are white... 🤡

[@GodCarnage]

@@Inktownicony did you feel the need to comment. Literally before integration there were 100% more black business we now gotta beg the former slave master for work smh know your history N!gr

[@edwinjohnson7580]

So glad this footage was saved and preserved.

[@explorerofmind]

He sounded nothing like I imagined him sounding.

[@johnnypinestead7879]

That's a hero. We tend to use that word to quick today.

[@junejones9819]

Thank you Thank You for your Mental Strength, Courage, Perseverance, To Make your Mark in History and the World. 💪🏆⚾️

[@Frenite]

I didn’t expect his voice to sound like that

[@markleonard9999]

The fact that he sounds articulate? or the pitch of his voice . . . or perhaps both? Im curious as to what you're referring to. I won't be a hypocrite and 'assume' that the surprise is that he sounds as if he could be white, if you couldn't see it with your own eyes. One example is that one shouldn't ever judge a person by appearance, but rather what is on the inside which is truly the most significant and meaningful.

[@Frenite]

@@markleonard9999 I just imagined his voice sounding a lot deeper, but there’s nothing wrong with his voice.

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

​@@FreniteProbably because Jackie was ill with diabetes here.

[@acousticshadow4032]

We still love you, Jackie.

[@joeguajardo5092]

Great moment in baseball ⚾

[@ronflatter1235]

Thank you for posting this.

[@ronflatter1235]

Only nine days later, Jackie died. #RIP

[@marquavious24ify]

9 days? Wow

[@marquavious24ify]

thats wild

[@lwmson]

he was only in his early 50's too.

[@whitneywilliams317]

@@lwmson wow so he wasn't that old

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@whitneywilliams31753. The same age Babe Ruth was when he died of throat cancer in 1948.

[@ThekiBoran]

Rachel Robinson will be 100 this coming July 19th,

[@mvpgraham7]

Now she is 😃😃😃 100

[@kevinmiller6380]

​@@mvpgraham7101 now.

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

​@@mvpgraham7Soon to be 102.

[@condor7810]

Jackie got his wish in 1975 when Frank Robinson (no relation) became manager of the Cleveland Indians (now Guardians).

[@GodCarnage]

There were black managers in the Black Baseball league....😂😂😂😂

[@PhillySportsDylan]

@@GodCarnage he probably meant in mlb

[@beat-inbuzzard4473]

Gil Hodges first baseman for the Dodgers boys of summer in the fifties died earlier in 1972 of a heart attack. He finally made the HOF this year, 2022 after all these years. I miss those Boys of Summer, I believe the only one that is left from the Boys of Summer team of the 1950's is Anderson, Indiana native and Dodger pitch Carl Erskine. I still remember the days at Ebbett's Field when Baseball was just a great sport to follow

[@Lava1964]

Gil Hodges having to wait so long for the Hall of Fame was criminal.

[@kevinmiller6380]

Sandy Koufax is still with us; he made his debut for Brooklyn in 1955.

[@cminton716]

He would be happy to see dusty baker

[@Inktownicon]

Very happy

[@DaveLynchJazzGuitar]

Jackie was CLASS....all the way....

[@patrickturner2788]

Jackie Robinson is one of my greatest American heroes. I had to stop watching when they announced his name and got some mild applause, and did I hear booing. Sad, this was 1972.

[@eddiepachanco4298]

I did Not hear any boos

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

His diabetes was affecting him in the early 1950s. They just didn’t have the medications to stop it from ravaging his body. he had lost sight in one eye and could hardly see out the other

[@jonklein7130]

The doctors had told him he would not around along.

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

​@@jonklein7130Sadly they didn't have the drugs necessary to treat diabetes back then like they do today.

[@estherxia6846]

As Jackie Robinson wished, Dodgers have a black manager, Dave Roberts

[@fhoeschasepape]

Dave roberts is not black lmao but I get what u saying lil bro

[@CentTV]

@@fhoeschasepape he’s 50%

[@fhoeschasepape]

@@CentTV that’s not black lol

[@fhoeschasepape]

@@CentTV 50% is mixed dumbo so you proved my point

[@billymatthews7346]

Have always thought 💭 Jackie should have played a season or so…as an LA Dodger….⚾️

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

Jackie retired after the 1956 season after he got a job with Chock Full O'Nuts coffee company, rather than accepting a trade with the hated crosstown rivals, the New York Giants, although it would have been nice to see Jackie as a teammate of Willie Mays.

[@redmustangredmustang]

Hard to believe in less than than 2 weeks he was gone. Diabetes really bit him hard. He probably would have made it longer if modern medicine especially diabetes management was around.

[@rccurry7431]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm 🤔 seems Jackie Robinson hit a home run Every Time he show his self on the Base Ball field ⚾. Standing against injustice and racial Behavior 🙏 RIP 🌹

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Chock full of nuts coffee killed this man. Goddamn your fucking coffee. He died a week later. Too much coffee. It’s fucking sad

[@RELubber]

diabetes killed him, not coffee!!

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

@@RELubber it was the coffee bro. That swill killed Jackie

[@lwmson]

@@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879 You're stupid.

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

@@lwmson the chock full of nuts coffee helped kill him. His wife Rachael said so. He died at his home at 53.

[@lwmson]

@@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879 First, there is no evidence whatsoever that heavy coffee drinking causes diabetes, which was what he died from. Second, just because he worked as an executive for the company meant that he had no obligation to drink their coffee. You'e talking total bullshit. Don't write nonsense posts on the internet. Instead, find something more constructive to do.