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Herb Pennock:
Branch, you've got one helluva hair across your ass on this thing and I, for one, would like to know what you're trying to prove? Branch Rickey:
Do you think God likes baseball? I do. Herb Pennock:
What the hell does that mean? Branch Rickey:
It means you're going to meet God one day, Herb, and when he inquires why Robinson wasn't on the field in Philadelphia and you answer because he was a Negro, it may not be a sufficient reply
Branch, you've got one helluva hair across your ass on this thing and I, for one, would like to know what you're trying to prove? Branch Rickey:
Do you think God likes baseball? I do. Herb Pennock:
What the hell does that mean? Branch Rickey:
It means you're going to meet God one day, Herb, and when he inquires why Robinson wasn't on the field in Philadelphia and you answer because he was a Negro, it may not be a sufficient reply
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Movie Summary
In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process.


