It was the day when the vote was to be taken for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.For a year Smith had lived with stinging disappointment of having been brushed off by voters. He alone among six finalists on last
was lifted to the highest point of the bonfire — an experience he said made him look like a "funny a** football coach" — and not only watched but participated in the annual tradition, which was exactly what he wanted to do.
Jackie Smith 02/22/1940 Jackie Larue Smith (born February 23, 1940) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Northwestern Louisiana State College, now Northwestern State University...
“Jackie Robinson, took the first steps toward integrating the sport's major league teams when he signed a contract to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947” (Smith para 1). Jackie Robinson was the first African-American player in the major league baseball. If Jackie Robinson didn’t sign...
Not only did Jackie Robinson manage to live up to the criticism, he also changed the face of America’s greatest past time forever. With his entrance into the MLB he opened the path for great black players like Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays, and Ozzie Smith just to name a ...
journalists for mainstream papers joined the chorus for baseball integration. (In the film42, Smith is depicted as Robinson’s traveling companion and the ghostwriter for Robinson’s newspaper column during his rookie season, ignoring Smith’s key role as an agitator and leader of the long ...
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. Growing up, he excelled at sports and attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the first athlete to letter in four varsity sports: baseball, basketball, football ...
Edie Falco on her Nurse Jackie character, "Jackie Peyton's" relationship with her boss, "Gloria Akalitus," played by Anna Deavere Smith 01:00 Edie Falco on working with Eve Best ("Eleanor O'Hara") on Nurse Jackie 01:00 Edie Falco on her Nurse Jackie character, "Jackie Peyton's" rela...
Jackie Robinson BY RAYN SMITH FREEDOM Freedom is that you can do what ever you can do and enjoy life and be free but slaves they are not free because. Martin Luther King Jr. by : Cade Parks. Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
Jim Thomas Of the Post-Dispatch