Don Newcombe choked up with emotion on Thursday as he recalled friend Jackie Robinson and the bigotry that he and other African-Americans endured. Touching his bare wrist an hour before Jackie Robinson Night ceremonies at Dodger Stadium, the Hall of Fame pitcher, 83, asked why a different skin color unleashed so much hate in others. Newcombe said Robinson, his longtime friend and Dodgers teammate, would be "happy but not contented" with racial progress within Major League Baseball and the United States since his death in 1972. |
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