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Novem b e r 14, 1972 Geneseo Lam ron Page 5 T H E J A C K I E R O B I N S O N Y E A R S Editor’s note: This week we present “The Robinson Years,” which appears in the current issue of The Sporting News. Envy is a very human trait. N o t an admirable one or even a nice one. But very human. So... I have always envied men Dicu Y o u n g and Roger Kahn and Roscoe M c G o w e n —men who covered tiie Brooklyn Dodgers in the days when the Dodgers were one of the m o st exciting teams in baseball and the interest in baseball was at its peak in New Yoriv City. I speak of tne late 1940'sand early 1950's when the Dodgers were fielding those great teams and they would battle the Giants from Coogan's Bluff and a city o f than seven m illion by hatreds, passions and em otions never known in the grand old game and never to be matched in all the years that have followed. W h at I'm talking about is \T h e Robinson Years.” I never saw anything like it, nor do I expect to see anything it again. It w o n 't happen again. It That's because no one can ever create that exact era in history again. The m o rning Jackie Robinson died, a local disc jockey woke me out of bed and asked if I would talk about him on his s . was very flattering and maybe it was m y pride or m y ego or m y vanity at work, but I just didn't have the courage to say that I knew Robinson only from sitting behind tne screen at home plate in the upper deck at Ebbetts Field or out in the bleacners, where you got the the best buy in the world for 55 cents. I began rambling on about Robinson, what a great man he was and the things he m u st have had to endure to become the first black player and how I could not forget the night in Detroit when I met him on a T V by Joe Falls show and we talked off camera for a few m o m e n ts and I asked him how he felt about facing Allie Reynolds in the old days and w a tching the smile flicker around his lips and listening to him say, “Oh, you remember tuat, too.” Allie Reynolds, of all the men Jackie Robinson faced in his handle. T h e y 'd bring Reynolds in to pitch relief in those W o rld Series games and he'd come in hard and tight on Robinson and tie him up in knots. \O h , yes,” Robinson said as he sat there in the studio, \I rem e m b e r Reynolds. He was special. Very special. It was always a little extra when he'd come in. I could feel it. He knew it and he always got the best of it.” T o m e beautiful-that years after the battle he would pay his respects to Allie Reynolds. A n d as I related this story on the air, that's when the envy began to take hold of my mind. That's I would have given anything to be there to write the real Robinson story-the story of this m an's great effort in the adversity and responsibility. But I didn't know that Jackie Robinson and when the show was over, II was ashamed of myself for not adm itting I didn't know him. What I wanted to and didn't, was that I remember how he used to walk to the plate in those days and as he got ready in the batter's box, how he'd take his right hand off tiie bat and slap it very quickly against the side of his hip. A s th e passed and Robinson began to conquer the movements became slower, more relaxed, and after a time he didn't do it at all. Robinson, you know, really didn't look a ballplayer. His pants always seemedto be too baggy. H is hair was greying, even then, and he moved about the short, jerky strides--not the sm o o th, fluid way you expect from the great ones. B u t there was never any doubt exactly what this man could do from the m o m e n t he would get on base in a tough situation. Everyone knew what he was going to do. He was going to the opposition. N o t merely upset them or beat them, but destroy them. A lo t of ballplayers have of base stealing to a very high de g r # . B u t that wasn't enough for Robinson. He wanted to turn the whole game around from first base. He wanted to give his team all the m o m e n tum while robbing the opposition of all its poise and pride. He w o u ldn't merely take a lead off the bag. He'd dance off the bag in a gesture of defiance. They realized what he was trying to do and the more they realized it the more angry they became. Y o u feel the fury boiling up in the pitcher's mind. You could sense the anxiety up in the catcher's mind. Y o u could feel the entire team growing tense. It was always an excruciating moment. M a n y times the pitcher would whirl and throw over to first base and there'd be the ball bouncing around down in the Robinson set out for second and raced around to third. O r h o w times the catcher's hurried throw would sail into center field and now there'd be Robinson not only but turning on his way to third, in another gesture of disdain. Yes, this is the eulogy to The only eulogy I can offer. For me, it is enough. Thank you, Jackie. Tuesday, November 14,1972 S.U . N . Y . Geneseo Vol. 72, No. 13 See the books. There are many books here. This m u st be a bookstore. See the stamps. Y o u can buy 2 8 -cent stam ps here. For 20 cents. See the rip-off. A n d now, a visit to the Geneseo bookstore, one of the best places in to everything you need.... A s you step into the store, conveniently open from early 4:30 in the afternoon on weekdays and until noon on Saturdays, you are faced with a wall of cubby holes, in which you must put your books and personal belongings. Please hang up your coat. Thou shalt not rip off thy bookstore as it off thyself. of anything merchandise from the store is impossible w ithout outer garments or other books. Note the security system that isn't there to keep an eye on your books 3f)d belongings. The bookstore has the consumer in mind at all times! attitude becomes considerably more apparant when the student is F A N T A S T I C S U P E R S A L E IT E M S complete with such recording greats as 'Oscar Peterson Plays the Jim m y M c H u g h Songbook' and 'John Williams, Virtuoso Guitar'. Only $1.99. A n d of course, the old money-saver S U P E R complete with men's and wom e n 's esentials. Moderately priced by the advertising agency pushing their weak products. a welcome addition to any dining room table when friends or neighbors drop by, were on sale last week. There was an open jigsaw puzzle on sale week too. Sorry if y o u out there this fantastic bargain. There was a limited quantity, hr..,e..ar Th« '.T-l •'O’- w h o that one lucky buyer was. ( A cu s t o m e r - A n y pieces m issing?) consumer-mindedness m u st be the m o tto of the institution, as nothing is ever thrown away. It goes on sale. And, on your left, ladies and gentlemen.... The, or better yet, “Ye Olde Sweet Sh o p \ , which is exactly what every Geneseo student was crying for, was recently opened to the public. Just a general store. “D o we nave w h a t? A n extension cord? No, I'm sorry son, we don 't carry anything like that. Wanna buy a candy cane.\ dow n bargain lane, the Fashion Center our view. Buy an overpriced shirt, sweatshirt or pair of shorts with the name of Y O U R S C H O O L printed in the appropriate place. The racket here is that your brother, who is 12 years old and will be a Geneseo football hero someday, wants a college shirt. A n d sweatshirt. A n d shorts. Spending a ten dollar bill on $5.00 worth of cloths and $5.00 worth of ink was never so easy. Here at the college bookstore, we have the consumer in mind. around the S U N Y stationary center, we are faced with an admittedly large collection of textbooks, placed in order only by department. the English Department offers about 100 courses. Happy hunting. A s we continue down the back wall of the store, we find a Cliff Note and a Monarch Note conveniently placed about every 15 feet in boxes, racks, on shelves and on the floor. Besides bookstore shows a keen interest in organization. A t the corner, we see a rather large glass w indow with a man at a desk. This man Tipnaoes the honks+ofe In front Ktioto by Sal D ’Arco of this window, there is a large bearing the framed \N o checks cashed” sign when you're down to your last nickle and you want to buy something uptown because it's not discounted 10% for students in town. D o n 't forget to notice the complete selection of books on Buddy Holly, The Drifters an d T h e W h o conveniently placed so that they'll move. Maybe. A t this desk, a favorite game is...let's try to return a book. G o o d luck! ....After being hassled by the cashier for bringing a book into the bookstore, a.id explaining that you'd be just as happy for her to pay you your refund right then and there, you m ight be LoCurto's area. If it's at the beginning of the semester, all you need is a reciept... and the book... and a drop slip... (and a Election Results Page 5 Continued on Pg.2 m Q. 9L O o 3 3 CO O’ < X • 5 c 3 CO S r+ zr 0i <■* » t a . w ■ e %
