Actor Harrison Ford has signed on to play famed Major League Baseball executive Branch Rickey in the upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic. “Ford will star as Branch Rickey, the innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for breaking MLB’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract in 1945,” Legendary Pictures […]
Actor Harrison Ford has signed on to play famed Major League Baseball executive Branch Rickey in the upcoming Jackie Robinson biopic. “Ford will star as Branch Rickey, the innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for breaking MLB’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract in 1945,” Legendary Pictures […]
VIA: JackieRobinson.Com Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, single-handedly raised Jackie and her four other children. They were the only black family on their block, and the prejudice they encountered only strengthened their bond. From this humble beginning would grow the first […]
