Multicultural voices of those who grew up in the borough tie Robinson’s and the Dodgers’ groundbreaking accomplishment to Brooklyn, a place of immigrants, who the docu contrasts socioeconomically with the era’s comparatively well-heeled Yankee fans. Walker would be traded from the team in the off-season. Still, the filmmakers do get one nugget - a photo of aptly named Dodger favorite Dixie Walker looking away from the camera during the team picture in 1947, Robinson’s rookie year, as a silent protest against integration. It includes recent revelations, first made elsewhere, that Dodger shortstop Pee Wee Reese, celebrated for casually putting a friendly arm around Robinson to silence racist fans, didn’t make the gesture until after Robin-son’s tumultuous first season. The docu’s first hour covers well-worn ground, from the origins of the team’s name (Trolley Dodgers) to the Robinson saga, from the feud between co-owners Branch Rickey and Walter O’Malley to the team’s gut-wrenching 1951 playoff loss to the rival New York Giants.
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