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Podcast: Classic Baseball Daily Highlights
Episode: May 9 1947 Jackie Robinson and Ben Champman Photo
Description: Todays classic moment is brought to you by www. franchsingconnection.com, if you are going through a career transition please visit them for help! On May 9, 1947 — Philadelphia manager Ben Chapman, who admits he had been ‘kinda loud’ in leading his team in verbally abusing Jackie Robinson with racial slurs during yesterday’s game, sends word to the Brooklyn clubhouse that he would like to make amends by posing with the Dodger first baseman for the newspaper photographers. The orchestrated gesture, which Robinson agrees to, admitting later that is one of the hardest things he...