Jackie Robinson

Breaking a barrier

2013-04-30 15:08:50

NBA center Jason Collins says he has gotten "incredible" support since revealing in Sports Illustrated that he is gay and thus becoming the first openly gay male athlete in one of the major team sports in this country. As that support includes...

Anne Arundel athletes say message of '42' still relevant

2013-05-02 15:55:00

Arundel High School sophomore Chloe Hill entered a screening of the motion picture "42" on Thursday indebted to the film's main character, baseball player Jackie Robinson. The film depicts Robinson's struggles and triumphs in becoming the first African-...

How Sam Lacy helped integrate Major League Baseball

2013-04-22 11:12:00

Like most films depicting historic accounts of real-life events, the bio-epic "42" carries the immediate disclaimer that it is based on a true story, leaving room for interpretive analysis and creative license. Consequently, dramatic interpretations are...

Honoring Sam Lacy's role in Jackie Robinson's success

2013-04-27 06:30:00

Thanks for your wonderful article about Sam Lacy ("How Sam Lacy helped integrate baseball," April 22). My husband and I were privileged to know Mr. Lacy during the last decade of his life and to hear directly from him what it was like during the days when...

Lacy deserved mention in '42'

2013-04-19 05:15:00

Having just seen the wonderful film, "42," the other day, I, too, was struck by the absence of a mention of the Baltimore Afro-American's Sam Lacy in the sports reporting of such a momentous time in baseball, America's and civil rights history. Your...

Jackie Robinson, Ben Carson and civil rights

2013-04-25 07:30:00

As someone who came of age after the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, I was really struck and disturbed by some of the scenes in the Jackie Robinson movie, "42" ("'42' hits a homer at the box office," April 15). When you see the crowds in these...

Jackie Robinson movie spurs memories of integrated American Legion baseball team [Commentary]

2013-04-24 03:15:00

Over the years I sometimes think of Tony Carter and wonder what happened to him. Carter was a left-handed hitting second baseman who had some pop — baseball lingo for power. I also remember he ran on the tip of his toes and had a large Afro. I...

Orioles notes and observations (Wieters, extra innings, Bundy, Etchebarren)

2013-04-19 03:00:00

Catcher Matt Wieters doesn’t show much emotion on the field. He’s Baltimore’s Matty Ice. So it was interesting to see him show some not just once, but twice, in the late innings on Thursday night. The first was fairly understated. He...

Orioles react to the Boston Marathon tragedy

2013-04-16 20:11:00

Roughly four hours before Tuesday’s first pitch at Camden Yards, Orioles manager Buck Showalter held a meeting with his players and staff to ensure them that proper safety precautions were being made in light of Monday’s Boston Marathon...

Ayanbadejo is wrong: Now is the time for a gay sports hero to speak up

2013-03-10 04:00:00

"Now is the time..." -- Martin Luther King, Aug. 28, 1963 Brendon Ayanbadejo is wrong. It is painful to say that. Mr. Ayanbadejo's heart is in a good place, and the advice he gave recently on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" was practical and well intentioned....

Ravens LB Brendon Ayanbadejo appears on 'Face the Nation' on CBS

2013-03-24 12:36:00

Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo appeared on 'Face the Nation' with Bob Schieffer on CBS Sunday morning. Ayanbadejo was part of a panel discussion on same-sex marriage. Read the complete transcript below. Bob Schieffer: Good morning, again, this...

Matt Hobgood and Mychal Givens excited for a fresh start this year

2013-03-04 16:26:00

SARASOTA, Fla. — As pitchers conducted their first workout of the spring at the Orioles' minor league camp Monday, the beginning of two comebacks took place in the bullpen area of the Buck O'Neil Baseball Complex at Twin Lakes Park. It's been...

Junior varsity baseball and softball players raise their hands for a chance at answering a trivia question and winning a #42 Orioles jersey before a screening of "42", the movie about the life of Jackie Robinson.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Left to right, Kyra Brown, 15, freshman, Chardonnay Cooper, 15, sophomore, The Orioles Bird mascot, Kirea Sheppard, 15, sophomore and Bridget Smith, 15, freshman, share a laugh as the students enter Hoyt's West Nursery Cinemas.

2013-05-01 00:00:00

American professional baseball player Jackie Robinson (1919 - 1972) of the Brooklyn Dodgers, dressed in a road uniform, crouches by the base and prepares to catch a ball, 1951.

2013-04-23 13:12:24