the brooklyn dodgers. but racism was inevitable. >> i went to every home game at ebbett field.i was there when things took place, and we could discuss them on our way home because i'd seen the same things he'd seen. >> with the desire to not only be mrs. jackie robinson, rachel set out to achieve her own career goals. >> i've been involved in clinical work. i've been involved in teaching. been gratified by it. gratified by being able to help other people. and grow myself. >> which she had to do after life threw her several curveballs. >> my husband passed away in 1972. it was an untimely, unexpected death. and devastating to our whole family. also, my son, jackie jr., was killed in an automobile accident a year before. so it was the worst time in my life, and i needed a way to go forwa forward, how to not only grieve but to remember them in some way special. >> so in 1973 robinson established the jackie robinson foundation, which has assisted over 1,400 college scholars with $30 million in direct financial support. >> rachel in her infinite wisdom realized that it wasn't enough

you had the brooklyn dodgers. everybody great that i knew of, whether it be jack-year gleason or walt wittman who i read about in college and high school, everybody seemed to come from brooklyn. >> rose: norman mailer. >> that's correct, aaron copeland. >> rose: truman capote. >> barbra streisand lived in brooklyn question, go on and on and on from mel brooks and so on. so had this this sort of, i came to new york when i was 22 years old. and here's this place called brooklyn which is dense leigh populated. which had a baseball team which hi heard of which left in 1957. it was kind of like you grow newspaper cleveland, a nice play to grow up but you come to a place which you hear about as a kid, as a mecca. and so when i first came here, i worked for the city right after law school. >> rose: consumeary fairs. >> correct. and so i got to travel all over the city and i fell in love with brooklyn, the transportation, the parks, the museums, just everything. the brownstones. and so very early on i said in 1984, '85, i

. >> this is like the brooklyn dodgers leaving. of tears. >> i'm incredibly sad because this is the last day of this cafe. >> reporter: cafe served their last meal today. you just saw the opener, who opened the eatery 28 years ago, the same year her daughter was born. the cafe was an instant hit. dewaters says now it's time to move on. >> it's a very bittersweet moment and i know that something beautiful is going to happen in this space. >>> but there's no word yet exactly what will be filling the space left behind by cafe fanny. >>> republican presidential candidate newt gingrich campaigned in the deep south today. gingrich and wife calista campaigned in mississippi rallying supporters in gulf port. the former house speaker also appeared in meridian where he quoted scripture. >> i can summarize while we're running. it goes back to proverbs. without vision the people perish. we've been through a period where both parties have lacked vision. >> gingrich is a distant third in the delegate count. >> the texas congressman attended a te

everybody remembers jackie robinson breaking the color barrier with the brooklyn dodgers.s he spent most of that season in a slump and at the end of the season people were really wondering if he could cut it in the major leagues. that's one of the questions we look at with barack obama. when we look at the support for him among african-americans, it remains steady. but the question then becomes, what size of that group are we talking about? people who came out and voted as you well know, african-american women were the largest demographic, had the highest participation, electoral participation. can you count on that -- >> of any group. any group. african-american women. the highest percentage of any group in the u.s. >> can you count on that happening again? i'm not sure that you can. obama has had a particular set of questions but when the person talked in the clip you said he promised a great deal. he hasn't necessarily delivered. one of the concerns is that what obama has delivered, he hasn't delivered to the black community. he hasn't really played up. he delivered wha

dodgers will be looking up! >> sreenivasan: that would be a welcome change. 54 years after the team left brooklyn, the legendary dodgers are at a low ebb, on and off the field. the club declared bankruptcy last june, hundreds of millions of dollars in debt. baseball commissioner bud selig installed an overseer to monitor owner frank mccourt, alleging he'd mismanaged the franchise and used team money to fund his very public and very bitter divorce. meanwhile, the dodgers haven't won a world series since 1988 and last year, they fell short of the three million attendance mark for the first time in 20 years. the new owners will try to turn that around, if their deal wins approval by a fedel bankruptcy judge and baseball's owners. for a closer look at all this, i am joined by bill shaikin who has been reporting on the story extensively for the "los angeles times." he joins us tonight from new york. thanks for being with us. >> sure. >> sreenivasan: first, i have to ask, are the dodgers or any team worth $2 billion? >> well, they're worth what somebody is willing to pay for them. and frank mccourt, the outgoing owner