he's evolved from the a philip randolf of the brotherhood of sleeping car ports, and web to boys and to a lesser extent some of the other leaders of the earliest 20th century. he's now plowing forward and permitting these other manifestations to take place. this is first of all a great story in sports. he is the most imporant person in the history of baseball, our national pastime. he's not the best player arguably, but he is the most important, and then it is a great american story because it deals with our central subtheme, after you deal with the nature of freedom, human freedom, the tension between what i want and our collective needs together, then race is the central theme, and i think it's a much larger human story about a person who takes on his shoulders this enormous burden, turning the other cheek, and so he was a central part of our baseball series that came out in 94 in almost every episode and we thought we done him, but the chance to do a stand alone prompted by his widow rachel who's 93, with all of her marbles and some of mine, and i want them back. (laughter) i want