Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball?
Tom Ficklin did. Not in 1949, when the song was recorded, and not specifically in 1962 when he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. But afterwards, as he realized what a tremendous impact the baseball player who broke the sport’s color barrier had on the landscape of American sports from the midcentury today.
So taken with this story — and all it represented in the American imagination — Ficklin and guest Tony McLean, in the latest episode of WNHH radio’s “The Tom Ficklin Show,” explore how the Jackie Robinson saga exemplifies the ongoing struggle for a significant number of birthright Americans “[who are] in the frustrated pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Click on the above sound file to listen.
Jackie Robinson was a Judas and a sell out.He just did not sell out Paul Robeson,He also sold out Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. and was criticizing Dr. King on the Vietnam war.In fact Malcolm X wrote a letter to Jackie Robinson about what he did to Paul Robeson.
Malcolm X – Letter to Jackie Robinson Amsterdam News
http://genius.com/Malcolm-x-letter-to-jackie-robinson-amsterdam-news-annotated