文章基本信息

标题：Jackie Robinson.
作者：Mitchell, Mark J.
期刊名称：Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
印刷版ISSN：1048-3756
出版年度：2012
期号：March
语种：English
出版社：Sports Literature Association

摘要：

 Jackie Robinson     You can't go back: Ebbets Field is long gone,    Polo Grounds, the reserve clause--history.    Books and Cooperstown guard the mysteries    of stats. You can conjure plays--a man on    third, one out. Jackie dances down the line.    The pitch, swing, hit--you almost hear the crack--    explosion at third--throw to first and Jack    sliding safe at home, ignoring the sign.     But numbers can't take you all the way back:    Moist Brooklyn afternoons, the silent shock    of his color in Dodger blue against    a green infield, nigger yells from the fence.    You might picture him dusting off chalk,    you won't see any strength spent being black.

Reprinted from Aethlon Volume 19:1

Jackie Robinson.

Mitchell, Mark J.

Jackie Robinson

   You can't go back: Ebbets Field is long gone,
   Polo Grounds, the reserve clause--history.
   Books and Cooperstown guard the mysteries
   of stats. You can conjure plays--a man on
   third, one out. Jackie dances down the line.
   The pitch, swing, hit--you almost hear the crack--
   explosion at third--throw to first and Jack
   sliding safe at home, ignoring the sign.

   But numbers can't take you all the way back:
   Moist Brooklyn afternoons, the silent shock
   of his color in Dodger blue against
   a green infield, nigger yells from the fence.
   You might picture him dusting off chalk,
   you won't see any strength spent being black.

Reprinted from Aethlon Volume 19:1