Oh, Happy Day: From Dreams to Change

January 20, 2009

 

“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.

America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers.

It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again.

But baseball has marked the time.

This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray.

It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again.

Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come”

-Terrence Mann – “Field of Dreams”

 

They say a picture says 1,000 words.  I burnt the midnight oil doing this one, so for now, the picture will have to say most of what I wanted. 

Don Newcombe once commented on Martin Luther King Jr. thanking him for what him, Campy and Jackie did in Brooklyn, saying they made the road that much easier for him to follow.  What Jackie, Newk, Campy and Larry Doby did in the late 40’s didn’t just affect baseball, it affected the nation for decades to come. 

Regardless of politics, today we enter a new era in this country, an era where our country is beginning to make good on MLK’s dream in a big way.  May better times follow in the days to come.

I’ll try to update this more elequently by the end of the day.  As for now, I’m beat. 

Written by northstateblues Posted in Dailies Tagged with barack obama, brooklyn, cleveland, dodgers, don newcombe, indians, jackie robinson, larry doby, martin luther king jr., roy campenella