lauren: the same, jackie robinson is my guess. stuart: the answer is jackie robinson.st baseball player on a us postage stamp, the markets are in rally mode as we approach the end of the week, dollars up 126, that is it for "varney and company" for the week but coast-to-coast starts now.

lauren: the same, jackie robinson is my guess. stuart: the answer is jackie robinson. the stamp was issued in 1982. first baseball player on a us postage stamp, the markets are in rally mode as we approach the end of the week, dollars up 126, that is it for "varney and company" for the week but coast-to-coast starts now. ♪ ♪ say goodbye to hollywood. julie: may not see much from hollywood in a long time. a walkout we haven't seen since 1960. that was the year john f. kennedy got elected president of the united states. the guy heading up striking workers at the time was the future president named ronald reagan, very different issues. angry actors and writers determined to get more, this is in the sixtiess. hollywood bosses say times are tough, hits are few and opportunities are not as many. striking actors and writers say that is bull, they were more to the point than that but they are the ones they say writing the checks and have far more revenue streams they can tap and a lot of strikers say they better share or else. we don't know how the strike sql ends but it could

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jackie robinson integrates majorly baseball in 1947, almost a full decade before the flowering of the montgomery bus boycott and the civil rights move in in the south. a sitting there before settings, a freedom rider before freedom rides. often times sports is like a weather vein in our society, and it tells us which way the wind is blowing. and sure enough, right now what we're seeing is the wind blowing towards justice, the wind is blowing towards some sort of reckoning with the history of racism, not just in the united states, but throughout the world. this is a global movement, and i think what you're seeing with so incredible about this is that what it does is it punctures privilege because it's very easy to be a white person in the united states. or i guess, anywhere throughout the world and not have to confront the reality of what it means to be black, not have to confront the reality of what it means to be an indigenous person. and when you have sports athletes, when you have them speaking out about these issues, it punctures that privilege, it's severs, that segregation. and

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you know, we did not put his arm around jackie robinson, the quiet the racist crowd.and in cincinnati on may 17th, 1947, i corrected in my book, but nobody seems to notice because it's still in the movie. it's still all these other books and documentaries so i'm really happy that at least this time people to be getting the getting the clue, getting the news. so thanks to, jonathan. i'm noticing something odd here. people on the front are really, really shy. so we're going to go to the back for another question. and i think maybe we might just have to pick people out of the front row, you know, put a microphone in front of you. you're not brave enough and we'll stick with the back of the room. you have a question? hi. this is now your third third african-american that you featured. why do you choose these people then? do you ensure that proceeds from your books actually go to either support foundations that are in their honor or their actual families and again, why that's a great question. i think. why? because i think. if you don't believe again, like if you don't, th

you know what jackie robinson didn't do? going on in hollywood. look at the new reboot of snow white and the seven dwarves. you've seen the photos. they got rid of the little people and cast taller people. but you don't know the reason why. apparently the wildly successful actor peter dinklage got upset that other little people were getting work and he thinks the movie is offensive. >> take a step back and look at what you are doing. it makes no sense to me. >> you are progressive in one way but you are still making that [bleep] story of the seven dwarves that live in a cave. what the [bleep] are you doing? >> jesse: disney caves, no more little people. what other movie could cast seven of them as leads? it could made seven actors household names. let's look at snow white's magical friends. a black one, a latina snow white, couple of women. were seven dwarves not diverse enough or disney? what's better? snow white and the seven dwarves or snow white and the six unemployed dwarves. why is disney excluded little people in the

his boss was branch who had, as general, the dodgers would sign jackie robinson, you know, and jackie robinson would break the color barrier in 47. so pop keltner was grew up in berks county, graduated from lafayette college down the road in eastern pennsylvania. and he was a very christian fellow, very strict by the book. so he couldn't curse babe out for hitting a ball. but once the 1950s rolled around, pop would tell this story to a publicist for the saint louis cards. and that's i found out, you know, about the babe. i'm doing a great service for the kids, but great disservice for his team. so that's it. so how did this bethlehem steel league come about? as a very good story. charles schwab was the chairman of the modern bethlehem steel, started in 1903. he bethlehem steel into the number two steelmaker in the country beside behind us steel. his mentor was the famous industrial titan andrew carnegie. schwab believed that if you gave workers proper recreation, then they would work a lot better. so he built this tremendous athletic program at the steel. if you worked at the steel, y

jacky robinson so here you have the sports journalist play key role one of the most important decisions in the history of major-league baseball. so i guess what i'm arguing is black journalism ways and on baseball that i would argue at that point that in the immigration of the entire nation. okay, one more figure to talk about, actually two more then will move on to our next topic and one of the figures, so schmidt was an journalist, fisherman maxwell, better known as one of the first regular announcers for the negro league. in fact he is called the jacky robinson of sports broadcasting pretty he became the first african-american it to broadcast baseball. and now, in his journey to become a black - he was turned down 25 times rated by a variety of radio stations and finally he got into nj are and got a five minute spot by 1920 and later on it would expand to 15 minutes and was on the ad. and during that he interviewed a lot of sports celebrities. but by the 1930s and the 40s he started calling in for the new york single led by the sports journalist and he also wrote stories for the ledg

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wimbledon be one of the greate as our race has made in the history of athletics outshining the achies jackie robinson joe louis and jesse owens as the top accomplishment of any ten athlete in. robinson. louis owens had made their in sports associated with the working. but gibson played sport that was neither highly commercial nor for the crowd from the other side of the tracks. others remarked upon the transnational significance of gibson's debut at wimbledon. in a sense, said the pittsburgh courier. wimbledon will be providing world setting where gibson's presence will be indicating to players, spectators from all over the world that the american -- is coming fast and has arrived. nevertheless, at least one sportswriter was not pleased. gibson's position as the lone and female representative of african-americans in tennis. marion jackson of the atlanta daily world was irritated by the announcement that gibson would be the first black competitor at wimbledon. jackson took a special cognizance of miss gibson's sex and, considered her leadership without the -- counterpart a first rate enigma. jackson c

but he did not want to play the kansas city monarchs for jackie robinson.ge newcomb. he didn't want to pay the baltimore league giants for roy cabala. so these are some really interesting revelations to talk about these phenomenal players who never had an opportunity to play in major league soccer. >> sam, talk also about how on the other side of the equation, we know a lot of the pain and humiliation that the black players played in and then eagerly had to go through. but it also rub the american public, the baseball public, of seeing some of the greatest players that ever played because of the color line and because of that, you have people going into the world series who may not have been there had we not had this rigid gym crow. so america suffered. the sport suffered. talk about that. >> this was fascinating, reverend charlton. we are great players like cole pepper bell, satchel paige, josh gibson. you have -- charleston, buckle entered, buck o'neal. these phenomenal players who had the athletic ability to really make things happen on the baseball path

he appeared at one point with jackie robinson at a massive rally and in new york city. he hosted several of the large black churches up north, and then one of the black papers says oh my goodness, his dad had struggled to find work as a result of desegregation. his family financially had been impacted by this. they began taking up a collection to find his college tuition, so that bobby kane could go to college. it ended up being enough to let him graduate debt free. he had quite the summer after it all happened. host: when the new school year opened in 1957 without principal britton who was exhausted and set down, the new principal came in to place. was he better able after a year of experience to navigate what the second year would be like? guest: the new principal was a very rough man. very different from dj britton. he was quite a bit taller, quite more intimidating, did not care if people like him at all. also at this point bobby kane had graduated so they had already tossed that marker of existential dread that the segregationists had had. so in some ways, i think

>> jackie robinson. obviously an iconic player. this is postcard. wearing royals. why is that? this is before he got to the brooklyn dodgers. controversy, obviously first african-american player in major league baseball history. to find something signed before he even came into dodgers really, really rare. this should be 10 to 20,000. abby abby got 30 seconds left. last two items. >> mickey mantel. this is a bat that he used in the 1961 to '62 season. even more significantly, this is a note that mantel signed home run home run season should be 150 to 300,000. >> abby: that's special to have that last item? >> babe ruth, another good hitter. >> 1923 world series not only one home run he hit three. this is the third home run hit in that world series that he autographed. home world series basic could be anywhere from quarter million to half a million dollars. >> abby: that is really special. we have been sayings the 93rd mid summer classic. babe ruth played in that all-star game. so very relevant for sure. thank you so much, dave. >> thank you. >> abby: i don't know, brian maybe l

it's a biography of perry wallace, who was sort of the jackie robinson figure, southeastern conference sports. he was the first black basketball player in the sec. and so that book is about basketball, but really it's about racism in the south. in the 1960s, civil rights movement, the personal toll of being a pioneer in that situation. second book is the games of deception on the first u.s. men's olympic basketball team, which a story again about basketball, but it's also about anti-semitism and fascism. and then the road to the holocaust. next book is called singled out. it's a biography of glenn burke, who was a major baseball player for the l.a. dodgers and the oakland a's. he's credited with inventing the high five, but he's also the first openly gay major league baseball player and. so that's a book that's about baseball, but it's really homophobia as well. and so with this book, again, i saw a chance to write about basketball but also, you know, sexism and misogyny and the women's rights of the 1970s and feminism, the way that basketball and athletics operated on kind of a parall

sports we that i am jackie robinson formed abraham lincoln right there for the kids out here.anyone have raise your hand if you have five i am books raise your hand if you have with us a lot. okay, there's five. okay. raise your hand if you have ten, raise your hand. if you have of them. those are the good parents right there. right there. i can identify them all and you have the t shirt. so that's a winner right there? so so yeah, we are now on number 30. we just came out with and i'm going to tell you something is up. favorite answer just to answer the question first and i'm going to tell you a great secret that no one knows and you can't tell anyone i'm telling you everyone. we can take a blood oath here. so get your knives ready. my favorite am books that we've done. i love i am abraham. i see you have it there because abraham lincoln is the one who lives up to the hype. i wrote these books to give my kids better, to look up to, to teach them how to kind, to teach them generosity, to them. perseverance to teach them humility. remember, humility was a great american value,

jackie robinson, baseball, kenny washington, football, arthur ashe, tennis, integrated sports in america to support muhammad ali's refusal to serve in vietnam to protest racial injustice at home. do you feel like a kid then? >> i felt like i was about going to have to become a man in those moments. >> reporter: he would meet the moment the next year in the 1968 olympics. while others made statements on the medal stand in mexico city, abdul-jabbar made his by staying home. you chose not to play? >> yes, i did. >> reporter: why? >> i did not want to be a part of showing the world a false image of america. it was very easy choice to make. >> reporter: easy choice. was there a price to pay? >> i didn't have any money at the time. there was nothing they could take from me. certain things are worth more than anything that you can put a monetary value on. >> reporter: you feel like if you go and play basketball for the usa in 1968, it's almost like you become a front man representing a country that was not fulfilling its promise to all of its citizens at home? >> rate. representing a country th

until recently when i scanned my bookshelves and multiple biographies of joe louis, jesse owens, jackie robinson muhammad ali, and now arthur, i find myself wondering whether the authors of those books that same question, because it seems to me that in their cases it might be a curious one. those authors probably received a more nuanced inquiry. how did they become interested in? fill in the blank in zweig, an entirely question would be appropriate to, and that question would be was there ever a time when you didn't know, said athlete? as it happens can tell you. when i first encountered the name althea, i was a child. i was likely in the third grade and my family had made one of our many trips to our public library. as i remember it, i found two illustrated biographies. one was about babe didrikson, the winner of three medals, two of them gold at the 1932 olympic games. the other was this one, a thin volume about althea gibson? i remember sitting beside my mother in the magazine section and reading both of those books. i think i read the gibson one first. i never forgot that bright pink cover.

but he didn't want to pay the kansas city monarchs for jackie robinson.n opportunity to play in the major leagues. >> talk also about how on the other side of the equation, we know a lot of the pain and the humiliation that the black players who played in the negro league had to go through, but it also robbed the american public, the baseball public of seeing some of the greatest players that ever played because of the color line, and because of that, you had people going into the world series that may not have been there had we not had this rigid jim crow. so america suffered. the sport suffered. talk about that. >> well, it was fascinating, reverend sharpton. you have great players like cool papa bell, you have satchel paige, you have josh gibson, you have buck leonard, buck o'neal. these phenomenal players who had the athletic ability to make things happen on the paths and they weren't able to play against lou gehrig or babe ruth except for the barnstormer events. it was a tragedy. the positive thing i take away from this experience is within our black

he learned about jackie robinson, martin luther king, etc.here wasn't really anything -- you learn about segregation but it's -- it never really got into -- a deep dive into it. it wasn't until middle school when i was fortunate to take a class on black history, african-american studies class, to learn about what happened to emmett till. what i learned about that i remember being so upset. i remember being, dang, i hate white people. but it took time and my teacher was like, hey, you have to understand bad things happen but you have to understand you can't just not gloss over it. you have to teach it for what it is. i never had that experience. it would have been a long time since i would've had the same kind of experience. it is something that is important to teach. we should not be afraid to teach what happened in our country. the good, the bad, the ugly. people are just afraid of knowing what actually happened and seeing it. i don't understand. why would you feel guilty for something you didn't do? it is mindnumbing. if you think that it i

jackie alemany, thank you so much. gene robinsonyou look at this lawyer running from one trump-related case to another trump-related case. from january 6th to another, and gee, will justice everen done? think about all the people in jail now because of january the 6th, because of donald trump. think about donald trump all indictments against donald trump. go back and thinking a all of the people who worked for donald trump, his national security advisor. like, indicted, arrested, indicted. like, charged. his campaign manager, charged. sent to jail. his assistant campaign manager, gates. charged. sent to jail. his political director, steve bannon, i guess counsel to the president, you know, charged. right? right? and charged and -- and found guilty and then pardoned and there may be another charge out there. the dude in south florida, the nixon dude with the funny glasses. i forget his name right now. like, arrested. what's that? what's his name again? >> stone. >> roger stone. that's right. for some reason i always forget roger's na

this honor will cement his legacy with other dodger great such as jackie robinson, roy campanella, and sandy koufax. and it is certainly a fitting tribute, fernando valenzuela's name is synonymous with los angeles sports culture. his neighboring nim el toro, and unorthodox pitching wind-up, raising his hands above his head and glancing skyward before tossing his deadly screwball. is just as much a staple of los angeles sports history as kobe brian's 81-point game or vin scully's legendary calls. this impact extends far but his impact extends far beyond los angeles. he was an inspiration for latinos across not only los angeles but the entire nation. he expanded the footprint of latinos in the sport building on the legacy of latino players like roberto clemente, transforming the demographics of baseball's fan base and player base. his story reflects the awesome potential that all immigrants can achieve their dleerms in america. i'm honored to stand before you today to share some of that beautiful, amazing history. fernando value ns way la -- valenzuela was the youngest of 12 children bor