The Dodgers are Evil

If it's done in a fairly small font, would anyone object to this paragraph being placed on the McC t-shirt?

December 13, 1956 -- TRADE TO GIANTS STUNS JACKIE AND HIS FAMILY

The children rushed to the door to meet the Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Robinson when they got home from the city Wednesday night. There was Jackie Jr., who is 10; Sharon, who is 7, and David, who is 4. By that time Jackie knew he was no longer a Dodger, but his concern was only for his oldest child.

"Come on with me," the ex-Dodger said to his son. They went into the boy's bedroom of the beautiful Stamford house. The mother and her other children went into the dining room.

"I have bad news for you," Robinson said to young Jackie.

The kid stared at him. "What bad news, Dad?"

"I've been traded to the Giants," Jackie said.

"Dad, you're kidding me," Jackie Jr. said. "You don't mean it. You're fooling."

"No, it's true," the father said.

"I don't believe it. I don't believe it," the boy cried, running from the room. "I'll ask mommy."

But the kid didn't ask mommy. Instead, he went to another room and it was there Rachel Robinson found her son sobbing, as though his heart would break.

"Daddy said he got traded to the Giants," Jackie Jr. said.

"It's true," his mother said. "That's the way baseball is. You've got to learn to accept these things and understand them. Now it hasn't been announced yet. Tomorrow don't say anything in school. Don't tell your friends."

"If it hasn't been announced," Jackie Jr. said, "maybe it won't happen. Maybe they'll change their minds and he'll stay with the Dodgers."

They didn't change their minds and the deal (for pitcher Dick Littlefield and $30,000) was announced yesterday while Jackie Jr. was in school and while he was there an era came to an end in baseball. Their home was overrun with photographers and Rachel Robinson tried to explain to me what it all meant.

"I started [Jackie Jr.] out at Ebbets Field when he as four months old," Rachel told me. "He's been going to Ebbets Field ever since. He knows everybody -- Griff [the clubhouse man], Doc [trainer Doc Wendler], all the ushers and players. he just feels he belongs there. He's known all along his father could be traded, but I guess he never really understood it. I guess he thought his father was an institution in Brooklyn."

The father did, too, after 10 years. He told me yesterday he never expected to be traded. "I thought I'd be allowed to finish my career with the fellows," he said.

Yet Wednesday afternoon as the Robinsons were going into New York for several appointments, they knew Vice President Buzzy Bavasi was trying to reach Jackie.

When Jackie called Buzzy, he heard about the trade. "What'll you do?" Buzzy asked.

"I want to think about it," Jackie said.

He came out of the phone booth. Rachel and Martin Stone, Jackie's friend and business adviser, were waiting.

"I've been traded," Jackie said, "to the Giants."

Rachel was astonished. For a moment she couldn't speak. "Her mouth came open and she stood there," Jackie told me.

The Robinsons drove back to Stamford then. They talked about the pros and cons of Jackie joining the Giants. He still hasn't decided, but at that moment, their chief concern was their son.

"He'll be hurt," Jackie said.

"He can't hear it on radio or TV," Rachel said. "You've got to tell him."

POST-SCRIPT

Robinson decided on April 10, 1957 to retire rather than accept the Giants' $60,000 contract offer.

Others who later attained that lofty status included JT, Woody, Jerome and, of course, Barry.

Being a baseball fan is hard on the soul.

BOOOOOOOO you moronic syphillitic blue-blooded sack of yak dung.  maybe  the mccorts will let you drive them around in their rolls on the way to legoland?  maybe lasorda will let u kiss his autographed picture of Frank Sinatra?  Bet it will be pretty cool lockering next to Kent telling negro jokes. hell, maybe you can leave in the 7th inning too along with the so-called fans. ya know. rob "meathead" reiner is a big fan of blue undies too.  maybe he'll get you a role with orlando bloom's new flick.."the kingdom of hell" which is where you now reside u evil low-life prick.  

nice choice of organizations.  the best thing the dickheads in LA have done lately is perfect the art of  asyphixyation for 162 games.  that makes sense since that miserable excuse of an overrich franchise is nothing but a collection of star-struck jag-offs anyway.  Have a nice 6 months battling the Rox for last place.  btw... i expect ned the head to sign tomko anyday now. have fun
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oh yeah. in case i forgot.  fuck you.