jackie robinson, very few people know the all story of jackie robinson, what an amazing story. the central piece of the story, most people don't know. obviously john paul was second, a great man. i'm not a catholic but i'm very pro catholic. so that's the long answer to your question. would you prefer the short answer? >> host: that was fine. it was william? >> guest: well, the short version of that is he is a man who led the battle for the abolitionist slave trade of the british empire. as anybody knows, very little about in the man know that much to be there so much more to him. i didn't know until i wrote my biography of him amazing grace for decades in the side and let me write a book about it. i knew what most people know which is almost nothing. in 1785 he had a dramatic conversion experience, very dramatic. he turned everything over to god and basically said i'd been given wealth, connections, influence, a tremendous talent, oratorical skills. how can i put these in service of others, not my own political ambitions but in the service of others. the carboloy example of th

jackie robinson, very few people know the whole story of jackie robinson, what an amazing story face with a simple piece of the story most people don't know that. obviously, john paul ii, a great men. i'm not catholic but i'm very pro-catholic non-catholic. so that approach of doing personally, chuck colson. that's the long answer to question. would you prefer the short answer? >> that was fun. who was william wilberforce? >> well, wilberforce, the short version is he's of the man who led the battle for the abolition of the slave trade of the british empire. anybody knows little about him, they may know that much. but there's so much more to but i did know it until i wrote my biography of him amazing grace. whenever they came out, amazing grace, i was asked would you like to write a biography? i've never had written a biography. i do have the ambition or desire. i figured that was a john or i would skip in this lifetime. very happy to skip it but it's one of the things i really thought carefully about it, prayed about it but this was a great man and i thought the anna, the privilege

and jackie robinson very few people know the whole story. what an amazing story. what the central peace to that and i am not a catholic but some i had the privilege to know personally. that is so long answer. would you prefer the short he answer? >> host: who was wilbur? >> guest: he left the battle of the slave trade. if anybody knows anything they may know that much. but i did not know and tell the wrote my biography that i was fast would you like to write a biography? i never had the desire i would skip that but i thought carefully and i prayed because this was a great man. i wrote that story and in the course of that i discovered what i did not know and what most people do not know which is what he did for the slave trade was the tip of the iceberg. extraordinary to think that one man could affect history as much as he did. he was humble the you cannot help to be inspired what happened if i turned my life over. but 1759 britain was a broken plays. but every social evil that you can imagine. i was astounded it was news to me and i am not a historian whose study

as we've admitted to baseball belatedly, 1947, jackie robinson, we've got this ocean of talent in latin america, particularly in the dominican republic but all over latin america. >> charlie: it's great to go to the dominican republic for vacation. >> you can put together an all-star team of dominican big leaguers, you'd bet on the dominicans. >> charlie: japan is turning out good players. >> the yankees just paid an arm and a leg -- >> charlie: and may not win. but you asked about what we could do better in baseball. >> charlie: yes. i suppose the pace of the game, not the length. >> charlie: the base of the game. >> in a way i'd like to ban batting gloves because they step out, adjust their batting gloves. babe ruth, henry aaron never wore a batting glove, none wore them. this is a fairly new phenomenon. john miller, the terrific baseball broadcaster now for the giants, watched recently, i guess he called it a k can enoscope, that's how long ago it was, of game 7 in 1953 world series, dodgers-yankees, doesn't get any more tense, he said not once during that game did a batter step out

>> three people in my opinion altered the face of baseball, jackie robinson breaking the color barrierin miller breaking the reserve clause and getting free agency for the players and frank jobe for coming up with tommy john surgery. those guys changed the face of baseball forever. >> well, thank you, tommy, we really appreciate you being here with us. >> thank you for having me, rachel. >> all right, coming up after the break, we'll have more on the development of the oscar pistorius trial. possibly south africa's most famous athlete, now on trial for murder. stick around. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions-- it matters. ♪ so i got the new nokia lumia icon. it's got 1080p video, three times zoom, and a twenty-megapixel sensor. it's got the brightest display, so i can see what i'm shooting -- even outdoors, and

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the important things were jackie robinson, free agency, and camden yards being built.ideousll those multipurpose stadiums that were good for neither respond or football. a guy would come to the plate. he could not tell if he was in san diego, st. louis, pittsburgh . phil look-alike. --n camden yard said >> what was at memorial stadium before them? stadium. memorial it was for baltimore fans. the people who build camden yard said, look, baseball is a uniquely observable game. people are spread out on an eye pleasing greenfield. it is the most observable of team games. back in andple return the game, and look what happened. we have had 22 new ballparks. every one of them is superb. ask how you like the nationals? >> very good. >> season-ticket? i have a handicapped son with down syndrome. he is it 81 games a year. he is a better job than i have. he is up in the nature league ballpark. >> he is probably happier than you are too. he is right there with his passion, right? this book. wrigley field. the story of the baseball stadium? >> no one would care about it if the team

now in baseball, some may say players like willie mays and jackie robinson are role models, but the a's found a hero close to his heart to help him achieve his major league dream. >> i'm happy to be healthy again. >> at 27 years old, you might say fan favorite, josh redick has it all. it wasn't always like that d. you know redick was cut from his high school team twice? was told he wasn't good enough to play at the university of georgia. overcoming all of that, josh's resiliency comes from the most important person in his life. his father, kenny. >> in 1988, kenny fell victim to a horrible electrical accident. over 7,000 bolts travel into his left hand through his heart and out of his right hand. >> i remember being electrocuted. it is like you put the waistbands and it vibrates. it felt like that, but a thousand times worse. >> kenny had his left hand amputated and doctors took arteries and muscles from his back, groin, and leg to rebuild his right hand. >> when they finally realized i was being electrocuted, i was already dead. they did cpr on me. >> the pain was so immense. it felt l

jackie robinson? so those are basically where we're looking. we're under contract for six, our goal is to do 600 of them. for heroes for my son and heroes for my daughter, we did 110 heroes, and we didn't even scratch the surface. i didn't even do ben franklin that i want to do, and the goal is just to keep telling them. i also would like to tell the stories about people you don't know. so there's a girl who's named alex scott, alexandra scott. and alex scott when she was barely a year old was diagnosed with cancer. it was the only life she knew, chemotherapy and surgery and sickness. and when she's 4 or 5 years old, she says she wants to open up a lemonade stand in her front yard. and she doesn't want to use the money for herself, she wants to give the money to doctors to help other kids with cancer. within a single day, alex's lemonade stand raises over $2,000. suddenly other lemonade stands start popping up. and eventually she sets a new goal, let's raise a million dollars. on june 12, 2004, hundreds of lemonade stands opened up in every sta

this time hired jackie robinson to break that barrier. what is the financial considerations?ld this team on the basis of what's going to make our team win the most. and if that player was gay or not gay, i can't even see it being a question or a consideration. wouldn't matter at all. >> stan kasten, thank you very much. good luck this season. guys, back to you. >> all right, thanks for that, jane. as always, great interview and great to have stan with us on "squawk on the street." >>> up next, today's squawk is trying to make health care more efficient by going mobile. we'll explain when we come right back. ck. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online so i can react in real-time. plus, my local scottrade office is there to help. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) ranked highest in investor satisfaction with self-directed services by j.d.

closer robinson because even my yankee friends were the most exciting player of that era was jackie robinson yes yes but here's the thing and this is what you know you just so on but jackie all k. you were jackie and i agree. for democrats i certainly should be have been rooting for the republicans i mean for the me for the dodgers because they were the first to enter a great day at the first base coach jake pickler who want to do a show caliber of a chalet from say you know how could you not and here i was in fact the only part of me that is republican is that i root for the yankees because they were you know they still wear the pinstripe suits they're there but all the parades in books and we go to yankee stadium a kid you know with what they wore ties yes we're going to do a lot to do it right is not the ideas are not a yankee fan that another restring of yours god bless. that's why i go to the game this is happened to me twice the yankees were playing the orioles at yankee stadium a fight broke out in the field the camera people somehow spotted me in the stands put me up on the jumbotron

makes that one and it catch however yes what tell down through the years yes probably because of jackie robinson yes the dodge a team of the late forty's fifty's yes the small things as probably closer robinson because even my yankee friends would miss the most exciting player of that era was jackie robinson yes yes but here's the thing and this is what you know you just so on but jackie yelled all kate you are jackie and i agree. for democrats i certainly should be have been rooting for the republicans i mean for the me for the dodgers right because they had they were the first to enter great they had the first base coach jake pickler who wanted to do a show caliber weapons challenge from say you know how could you not and here i was in fact the only part of me that is republican is that i would for the yankees because they were you know they still were the pinstripe suits they're there plus all the grades and books and we go to yankee stadium a kid you know with a view about what they want ties and yes what we do a lot of they do it right is not the ideal answer that not a yankee fan that anot

that jackie robinson was a serious question. have you heard that recently?fulfilling who we are, and making us great. this country was wealthy and made wealthy so that we could be , and it was we gave and is a privilege to get, and whatever we give away, god replaced so we can keep giving it away, so giving away is an act itself a trust itself and in god we did trust and he blessed us. jesus, who was the favorite philosopher of george w. bush, thank you, you have been a great audience, good night. [laughter] said for unto whomsoever much is given of him much shall be required. and to that, we as a nation said "amen." now, we did not just give money. we give ourselves. we gave up our great young men to fight against out of hitler -- adolf hitler. ourselvesand that we might be in the depths of the third reich so as we were able, we did what we could to defeat them and god blessed us for doing so. and here is something else we give to the world -- we give hope. we were speaking of truth and hope. a beacon of hope in a dark world of hopelessness and lies. we are

of getting those people dancing in the theaters falls to actor chad mcboseman who also played jackie robinsonero. he could do anything. he could say anything. >> reporter: boseman takes on the ambitious role of james brown without any prior training in singing or dancing. you picked an anterior in chadwick boseman who by all accounts is doing an incredible james brown. >> i just forget i'm directing. i'm mesmerized by him all of us like that every single day. >> fluid, super, aggressive mover so to learn to do that is quite an achievement. >> reporter: tell me about the split. the james brown split. a little different from another split. you got to nail it! >> you got to come back up then. >> reporter: have you perfected it? >> i haven't got stuck down there. >> reporter: he told me he had to learn not only to jump into a split, but morne importantly, gt out of the trick. >> that is the real trick. >> reporter: a young mick jagger appears in the film just as the real thing leads the rolling stones back on the road once again. we are about here 20-year-old mick jagger and now we are 70-year-ol

to play jackie robinson and now james brown. my gosh. are you dying of happiness? >> i had to give him some of my moves. >> the up top versus the down low. >> give him the other one. >> he's got >>> good morning to you, 8:26 right now i'm peggy bunker. a big headache this morning when three b.a.r.t. stations were closed this morning after a train hit and killed a man last night. they had to wait for daylight to finish collecting the evidence. the stations were closed until just about an hour ago. that really caused a lot of problems there. mike inouye is here with the morning commute. is it still tough? is. >> it is showing a ripple effect. people got up and heard about it and didn't update. we have a different flow. we're seeing heavier volume here, but the bridge is moving more smoothly now. it's been about a half hour to 45 minutes since all of the sagss opened back up. we're looking at slowing for the south bay, and west 237 really jamming up. that's the worst for the south bay. southbound 880 had a big jam after three crashes but th