Friday, 12 April 2013

Jackie’s legacy celebrated at ’42′ premiere in KC

This wasn’t your Hollywood red-carpet movie premiere. Not with a brooding grey sky, a breezy 41 degrees and a theater complex set inside a suburban shopping mall. This was Thursday night in chilly Kansas City and yet here came film star Harrison Ford, working his way down the red carpet at the Kansas City premiere of the movie “42,” the story of how Jackie Robinson and Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey, portrayed by Ford, broke baseball’s color line in 1947.


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