for oh, the space that is exactly one of the reasons why i know that dobie came to mid market street not only for the space for the great work with neural surgeons understanding and scientists to deal with cell systems but to be part oath community they've been always a part of and be able to represent that and with work that google and others to help to support and the creation and establishment of this wonderful new be pathway you know, i love the picture where that says that i might be homeless but you're not helpless because this city is all about creating more pathways for people and respectfully where people came from but never allowing that to hold them back and, yes we will have a lot of people without homes this is incredibly expensive city and limited land we have not built enough housing and need to do more while we're doing that be respect of people's lives and get them pathway and create the partnerships exactly like the downtown streets for themselves and brandon congratulation to you and ilene and chris and everybody else this is part of team and more importantly your

for oh, the space that is exactly one of the reasons why i know that dobie came to mid market street only for the space for the great work with neural surgeons understanding and scientists to deal with cell systems but to be part oath community they've been always a part of and be able to represent that and with work that google and others to help to support and the creation and establishment of this wonderful new be pathway you know, i love the picture where that says that i might be homeless but you're not helpless because this city is all about creating more pathways for people and respectfully where people came from but never allowing that to hold them back and, yes we will have a lot of people without homes this is incredibly expensive city and limited land we have not built enough housing and need to do more while we're doing that be respect of people's lives and get them pathway and create the partnerships exactly like the downtown streets for themselves and brandon congratulation to you and ilene and chris and everybody else this is part of team and more importantly your will

for oh, the space that is exactly one of the reasons why i know that dobie came to mid market street not only for the space for the great work with neural surgeons understanding and scientists to deal with cell systems but to be part oath community they've been always a part of and be able to represent that and with work that google and others to help to support and the creation and establishment of this wonderful new be pathway you know, i love the picture where that says that i might be homeless but you're not helpless because this city is all about creating more pathways for people and respectfully where people came from but never allowing that to hold them back and, yes we will have a lot of people without homes this is incredibly expensive city and limited land we have not built enough housing and need to do more while we're doing that be respect of people's lives and get them pathway and create the partnerships exactly like the downtown streets for themselves and brandon congratulation to you and ilene and chris and everybody else this is part of team and more importantly your

doby came and cold. one day he was playing in the negro leagues, the next he was in the india -- playing for the indians in the big leagues. that is a tough transition for anybody to make. he was relegated to pinchhitting all season long. has noe somebody who experience in the minor leagues. he's fared pretty poorly in his first year. in 1947 he made very little impact. i think that is a testament to how much ram stick he had put into the approach. was -- woulde sent not have been as lead or as strong. i don't think we would be celebrating the anniversary in the way that we are. >> you mentioned the problems with the cardinals. this is going back to his previous question, as you know, the cardinals were planning on boycotting robinson and not playing him. i was going to ask you relatively recently if there had been suggestions that the pittsburgh pirates were also planning to boycott. i was wondering if you had any information on that. this was a leak -- league wide strike. asking them to pick a day and

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. >> hi, everybody welcome to dobie i'm around the general council we're delighted to host this eventere today, the one year adjoining celebration of downtown streets project>> (clapping.) >> and an honor to host this event we stood together in front of it city hall nounsz this program and launching downtown streets in san francisco is through is course of year brandon davis led the organizations made a credible amount of progress i'll not steal his thunder butcy over the course we'll have an amazing tuesday night to work closely with the downtown streets team with staff members and team members during the aspiring community meeting on 9 street and individuals are preparing for contribution of employment and in other work that is done in but community been a great tuesday night for us to detainee our understanding finding issues that face the community and really refine the way we address those challenges together as a group in the area in san francisco it is also been an amazing opportunity for us to see the extraordinary impact that the downtown team maids not only in improving the

live nothing any of their mama's got dobie side their bed if you ever get a chance to push the poor people i hope you will level be so proud that would be a fine thing. they know full well that they have that explanation but ask them they cannot explain it but emmett till talk about what is going on right now in our home state as you come to talk about a book about emmett till. that is what this book is about how in the face of tragedy with the brutal injustice heartbreaking violence a courageous mother who is politically astute leverage to black power accumulating in chicago over six 1/7 decades but the johnson publishing company of the national publications lithos some workers of america with the civil rights union less steelworkers union with the naacp. led by a union official but also the dawson machine in chicago was a black political machine with the organization on the planet earth. you don't win illinois unless you win chicago. but they installed a man named richard daley. white people get to name the stuff but am what turns into a huge megaphone that it to turn into the internatio

. >> doby you hate when they say oh, you're sing, like you have a disease? >> i'm okay with that. just waiting. just single and mingling right now. >> yes. freedom to me. >> agreed. >> means don't settle. >> none of this is plan so i'll ask you a question. >> sure. >> give me the eye if you don't want to answer this. but you're single. >> yes, avenue book out, i'm going to be author. i just signed with saint martin press. >> congrats. >> yes, it will be coming out 2018 motivational and inspirational. >> celebrating where in your your live. >> yes, just like going to different chapters gracefully. >> at this point in your life. >> he's gearing up. >> watch out. right? >> how -- >> what approach would a man have to take to get you to be interested? >> for me, you now i want someone to be my friends first. i think. >> too physically attracted. this time, when i date someone, i want to get to know them first. hang out. make sure that we like to do certain things, not discover that we don't like to do certain things later. >> so i want someone to be my friend first, i want to hang out.

and the second question is what can you briefly say about larry dobie and what he went through? >> i think it was particular in each city through various environments. in philadelphia it was largely the result of the manager of the phillies who was well known as a racist and anti-semite. he had been in trouble before for some remarks he made about jews during his playing career with the yankees. he instructed his team -- and i talked to some of the old guys -- he instructed the team to give jackie a hard team at to . they were not designed to drive a wedge between robinson and his white teammates. this was in the first week of the first month of the season. it was still new. there was a sense that if robinson did not hit, he would go back to the minors. these remarks that the phillies were shouting, were not just calling him names, but they were suggesting that he would give his teammates diseases or rape the wives of the other players. things that were insidious and touched on a nerve that was very sensitive at the time when you look at segregation and what some of those issues

roy campanella, larry doby, don newcombe, and jackie robinson. >> let me ask you a couple questions.ese are really priceless items. how do you assure the provenance of an item that you buy? >> first of all, in any acquisition you have to do your own research. but beyond that there is an authentication process run by miers authentication based out of milwaukee, wes which is. they are a third-party authentication house. very professional. been doing this for many, many decades. dave groeb, who happens to be the co-author of my book, is the foremost authenticator in the world and -- >> so you need to know and go through that. >> yeah. >> let's talk about -- these are so special because not only were they great players or have historical significance as this one does as part of the black sox scandal, players didn't get a lot of jerseys and uniforms. >> no. they were consumerable business expenses, tyler. they were not meant to be saved like scorecards, tickets, or baseball cards. those are souvenir items we save -- >> so they might have gotten what, two uniforms a year? >> they had two h

.) >> as lisa said thank you dobie and is a money and alison a fantastic team truly in support of us in this area and we definitely wouldn't have been possible without the you and thank you luven will be served on the side you guys are all welcome to join us for lunch and enter mix and have a great time in the community thank you so it is now 1:08 p.m. and this is the regular maoetion meeting of the commission and community investment and infrahave you beening khur, the successor agency commission to san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday april 4, 2017. welcome and good afternoon to members of the public. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> thank you, the first order of business is item 1, roll call, commission nebs, please respond when i call your name, commissioner pimentel, absent. commissioner rosales. >> here. >> commissioner sigher? >> here. >> vice chair bustos is absentence. madam chair mondejar? >> here. >> commissioners, pimentel and bustos are absent and all members of the commission are present. the next order of business is item 2, announcements. the

any reform that you think about implementing needs to be doby. >> just to follow up.i am hearing sort of conflicting views from the services that i speak with different service personnel leadership as to navy army in the air force as to who's in for bracks and what's not and perhaps of my service of where they are. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i would like to thank your witnesses. mrs. flournoy, i would like to begin with this. we begin with challenges that we have whether terrorism and the groups associated with that, china, russia, north korea and iran. since world war ii, every administration has gone through the acquisition reform. i argue od otoday of where we a our adversary and challenge are strategically important as the other adversaries we talk about all the time are time and resources of what can he have excess of neither. give me your perspective on how we get an acquisition process that treats the sad sa adversar time and resources, how does it treat iran and north korea? >> i think the driver really is building out not just this new under secretary but a who