42 - Tension on the Mound: A Crucial Game
Barber:
Fritz Ostermueller on the mound. He's 12-8 on the season. A big game today in Pittsburgh. A win and the Dodgers will have clinched the National League pennant... ...Yankees having already clinched in the American League. There's bad blood here... ...as Ostermueller beaned Robinson in the head earlier in the season... ...prompting quite a rhubarb at the time. Teams have gone their separate ways since... ...with Ostermueller left standingin the Dodgers way... ...as they chase the pennant that eluded them last year. Here comes the pitch. And Robinson takes outside. Ball one.
Pittsburgh player:
Come on, Fritz, let's get this boy!
Fritz Ostemueller: [To Robinson]
You don't belong here. And you never will.
Barber:
Robinson crowding the plate. Jack hasn't backed down to a pitcher all season.
Man:
There you go, Jackie!
Dodgers player:
You got nothing for him, Ostermueller! But he's got something for you!
Barber: [OSTERMUELLER GRUNTS]
Ostermueller winds and throws. Low and away, ball two. Fritz seems to be pitching around Jackie... ...or as they say in the trade, trying to get him to chase. Robinson's having a fine rookie standard... ...batting .301 with 31 doubles and 10 home runs. He has stolen 27 bases this season and has yet to be thrown out attempting. Needless to say, Ostermueller being careful with him. (OVER RADIO) It's 3-0 now. Robinson patient, waiting for something he can swing on.
Jackie Robinson:
Give me something. Give me something I can hit.
Fritz Ostemueller:
You want it?
Jackie Robinson:
What are you afraid of?
Barber:
Ostermueller looking in for the sign.
Fritz Ostemueller:
Be careful what you ask for, boy.
Barber: [CROWD CHEERING]
And here comes the pitch. Oh, and that's a deep fly ball to left. Kiner on his horse, I don't think he'll get there. Back, back, back, and... Oh, ho, ho, doctor! Robinson got his pitch! It's a home run. (CHEERING) And barring a miracle comeback... ...the Dodgers are going to the World Series! (ALL CHEERING) He did it, he did it! (CROWD CHEERING) Jack in his home run trot now, and the home crowd here at Forbes... ..recognizing something special when they see it. All the same, I can practically hear the roar...from the heart of Flatbush back in Brooklyn.
Wendell Smith: [On his typewriter]
Robinson rounds third... .headed for home, sweet home.
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42 - A Journey Toward Equality in Baseball
Jackie Robinson: [While his leg is healing]
Why'd you do this Mr. Rickey?
Branch Rickey:
We had a victory over fascism in Germany. It's time we had a victory over racism here.
Jackie Robinson:
No. Why? Why'd YOU do it? Come on.
Branch Rickey: [[w:Ohio Wesleyan University|Ohio Wesleyan University]
I love this game. I love baseball. Given my whole life to it. 40 odd years ago I was a player-coach at ]. We had a Negro catcher. Best hitter on the team. Charlie Thomas. Fine young man. I saw him laid low, broken because of the color of his skin and I didn't do enough to help. Told myself I did but I didn't. There was something unfair at the heart of the game I loved and I ignored it. But a time came when I could no longer do that. You... you let me love baseball again.
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42 - Tension and Resolve in a Crucial Game
Barber:
But it wasn't enough... ...as the Cardinals tied it up with two of their own in the 9th. This game is crucial to the Red Birds. They are five games out... ...with the Dodgers not having relinquished first place since June 30th. They call him "Country." Slaughter's hitless in four trips. "Fireman" Casey in his second inning of relief. This game is just as tight as a new pair of shoes on a rainy day. Casey goes into his windup. Slaughter hits a hard ground ball right at Reese, who fires it over to Jack at first.
Barber:
Oh, my! Robinson is down. Slaughter spiked him high up on the leg and he is down.
Man 2:
Goddamn it! You knew what you were doing! You spiked my guy! Get up, Jackie. Get him up, boys, get him up. Stay off it. Team doc will be out. Hugh, next guy up, you hit him right in the head. You clean his clock.
Jackie Robinson:
No. Get me up.
Man 3:
No, lay down, man. You're staying.
Jackie Robinson:
No. Get me up!
Jackie Robinson: [pantiin]
Just get him out. Just get him out. Understand? Game's too important. Just get him out. Go play ball.
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42 - Playing Ball Amidst Division and Conflict
Pee Wee Reese:
They can say all they want. We're just here to play ball.
Jackie Robinson:
It's just a bunch of crackpots still fighting the Civil War.
Pee Wee Reese:
Well hell, we'd have won that son of a gun if the cornstalks would have held out. We just ran out of ammunition.
Jackie Robinson:
Better luck next time, Pee Wee.
Pee Wee Reese: [Wraps his arm around Robinson, provoking though later silencing the crowd; Looks toward the crowd]
Ain't gonna be a next time, Jackie. All we got's right here. Right now. You know what I mean? Thank you, Jackie.
Jackie Robinson:
What are you thanking me for?
Pee Wee Reese: [Signals toward the stands]
I got family up there from Louisville. I need them to know. I need them to know who I am.
Umpire: [Distantly]
Hey, number 1! You playing ball or socializing?
Pee Wee Reese: [scoffs, smiles; To Robinson; [w:Jackie Robinson Day|Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42]
Playing ball, ump! Playing ball. ]. That way they don't tell us apart.
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42 - Confrontation Over Race and Identity in Baseball
Ben Chapman: [To Robinson]
Why don'tcha look in'a mirror? This'a white man's game, alright, get that THROUGH YOUR THICK MONKEY SKULL!
Rachel Robinson: [From the stands]
Look at me baby. Look at me baby look at me.
Robinson: [Sees Rickey approaching, points his bat to Rickey; Panting]
No! No. Next white son of a bitch that opens his mouth I'll smash his goddamn teeth in.
Branch Rickey:
You can't do that Jack.
Jackie Robinson:
So I'm supposed to just let this go on?
Branch Rickey:
These men have to live with themselves.
Jackie Robinson:
I have to live with myself, too! And right now I'm living a sermon out there.
Branch Rickey:
You don't matter now Jack. You're in this thing. You don't have a right to pull out from the backing of people that believe in you, that respect you, that need you. If you fight, they won't say that Chapman forced you to, they'll say that you're... in over your head, that you don't belong here.
Jackie Robinson:
You don't know what it's like having somebody do this to you.
Branch Rickey: [[w:Temptation of Christ|In the wilderness. Forty days.]
No. No. You do. You're the one living the sermon. ] All of it. Only you.
Jackie Robinson:
Not a goddam thing I can do about it...
Branch Rickey: [Rickey comforts Robinson]
Of course there is, you can get on there... and hit... you can get on base and- and score, you can win this game for us. Everybody needs you, you're a medicine, Jack.
Jackie Robinson:
I'm takin the field.
Branch Rickey:
Who's playing first?
Jackie Robinson:
I'm gonna need a new bat.
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42 - Unexpected Encounters in the City
Jackie Robinson:
Taxi!
Wendell Smith:
Hey, Jack.
Jackie Robinson:
You again.
Wendell Smith:
That's right. Me again. There something wrong with that, Jack?
Jackie Robinson:
Where's the car?
Wendell Smith: [During the drive; Robinson remains silent]
Right this way. They can't keep you in Montreal for long. After these exhibition games, they're gonna have to bring you up. You don't have two words to rub together, do you?
Wendell Smith:
You ever wonder why I sit down behind third base, with my typewriter on my knees? Does that ever cross your mind? It's because Negro reporters aren't allowed in the press box. So guess what? You, Mr. Robinson, are not the only one with something at stake here.
Jackie Robinson:
I apologize. You've been there for me through this... ...more than anyone besides Rae and Mr. Rickey. But I guess that's what bothers me.
Wendell Smith:
How do you mean?
Jackie Robinson:
I don't like needing someone to be there for me. I don't like needing anyone for anything. I never have.
Wendell Smith: [Robinson signals for him to drive; both chuckle]
You a hard case, Jack Robinson. Hey. Is it okay if I keep driving you, or should I let you get out so you can walk? Hmm?
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42 - The Impact of a Hero's Influence
Mr. Brock:
Well, the wife's inside cookin'. You know what she asked me? She asked me this mornin', "What do you serve when a hero comes to dinner?
Jackie Robinson:
Um, Mr. Brock, I'm just a ball player.
Mr. Brock:
Oh no no, you tell that to the little colored boys playin baseball in Florida today. To them, you a hero.
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42 - Urgent Call to Action for Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson:
What the hell, Wendell?
Wendell Smith:
A man came by while you was asleep. He said more men were coming. It might have been those fellas. Mr. Rickey said to get you to Daytona Beach ASAP.
Jackie Robinson:
Why didn't you say so?
Wendell Smith:
Well, Mr. Rickey was afraid you wouldn't want to leave. You'd want to stay there and fight.
Wendell Smith:
Man, what in the hell are you laughing at?
Jackie Robinson:
I thought you woke me because, because I was cut from the team.
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42 - Opportunity in Baseball for Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson:
Mr. Rickey. What's this about?
Branch Rickey: [[w:Montreal Royals|our affiliate in Montreal; [w:Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn Dodgers; scoffs]
This is about baseball, Jackie. I see you starting in spring with ]. If you make it there, we'll try you down here... with the Dodgers. With the white ]. Hmm.
Branch Rickey:
I'll pay you $600 a month. And a $3500 bonus when you sign the contract. That agreeable?
Jackie Robinson:
Yes, that's fine but-
Branch Rickey:
There's one condition. I know you can hit behind the runner. That you can read a pitch. One question is, can you control your temper?
Jackie Robinson:
My temper?
Branch Rickey: [Robinson remains silent; Rickey attempts to "intimidate" him]
Yes, your temper! What are you, deaf? A black man in white baseball, heh, can you imagine the reaction? The vitriol? Dodgers check into a hotel, a, uh, a decent, good hotel. You're worn out from the road. Some clerk won't give you the pen to sign in with. "We got no room for you, boy. Not even down in the coal bin where you belong." Team stops at a restaurant. Waiter won't take your order. "Didn't you see the sign on the door? No niggers allowed." What are you gonna do then? Fight him? Ruin all my plans? Answer me, you black son of a bitch!
Jackie Robinson: [stands up]
You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?
Branch Rickey: [[Jesus|our Savior; [w:Turning the other cheek|turn the other cheek]
No. No. I want a player who's got the guts not to fight back. People aren't gonna like this. They're gonna do anything to get you to react. Echo a curse with a curse and, uh, they'll hear only yours. Follow a blow with a blow and they'll say, "The Negro lost his temper." That "The Negro does not belong." Your enemy will be out in force... and you cannot meet him on his own low ground. We win with hitting, running, fielding. Only that. We win if the world is convinced of two things: That you are a fine gentleman and a great baseball player. Like ]... you gotta have the guts... to ]. Can you do it?
Jackie Robinson:
You give me a uniform, you give me a number on my back, I'll give you the guts.
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Black Panther - Unity and Responsibility in Leadership
T'Challa / Black Panther: [addressing the UN in Austria]
My name is King T'Challa, son of King T'Chaka. I am the sovereign ruler of the nation of Wakanda. And for the first time in our history, we will be sharing our knowledge and resources with the outside world. Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows. We cannot. We must not. We will work to be an example of how we, as brothers and sisters on this Earth, should treat each other. Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth. More connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis, the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe.
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Black Panther - Confronting Fear and Claiming Responsibility
T'Challa / Black Panther: [angered at why T'Chaka abandoned N'Jobu's son in the US]
YOU WERE WRONG! ALL OF YOU WERE WRONG! To turn your backs on the rest of the world! We let the fear of our discovery stop us from doing what is right. No more! I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He is a monster of our own making. I must take the mantle back. I must! I must right these wrongs.
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Avengers: Infinity War - A Call to Action in Battle
T'Challa / Black Panther: [Last words]
Up, General! Up! This is no place to die.
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Avengers: Infinity War - Wakanda's Enduring Legacy and Spirit
T'Challa / Black Panther:
Wakanda forever!
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Avengers: Infinity War - A Call to Stand Strong
T'Challa / Black Panther: [Pronounced "yee-bam-Ba": [[w:Xhosa language|Xhosa]
YIBAMBE! ] for "hold strong"]
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Avengers: Infinity War - Prepare for Defense and Support
T'Challa / Black Panther:
Evacuate the city. Engage all defenses. And get this man a shield.
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