Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting - Ed Schmidt, LATW

Category: Full Cast, Plays & Theater, Sport & Recreation
Language: English
Keywords: Baseball LATW

Written by Ed Schmidt, LATW
Read by Ed Asner, Carl Lumbly, Full Cast
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Dramatization

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting
By: Ed Schmidt
Narrated by: Ed Asner, Carl Lumbly, Full Cast
Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
Performance
Release date: 22-12-2005
Language: English
Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

On a spring day in 1947, Mr. Rickey, the powerful General Manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson to his hotel room in Manhattan. Rickey wants their support when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the Major League’s first black ballplayer. But a power struggle ensues when the eloquent Robeson raises questions about Rickey’s motivations to integrate white baseball.
Learn more about Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers in Peter Golenbock’s oral history, Bums.
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