Now Playing Synopsis: Brian Helgeland's historical sports drama/biopic 42 relates the historic 1947 baseball season in which Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) decides to sign the first black Major League player, Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman). Although Robinson faces ugly, vicious racism from other clubs, fans, and on occasion his own teammates, Rickey encourages him to not fight back. By following that advice, Robinson allows his remarkable athletic talent to speak for itself, and soon the first-year player becomes one the most popular players on the team, eventually securing the Rookie of the Year award. Christopher Meloni and Hamish Linklater co-star. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni Movie Details Play Trailer Movie Review

...barriers in 1947 when Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers, based on the book by Dan Gutman, adapted for the...office of Mr. Rickey the day he signs Jackie to the Brooklyn Dodgers, April 9, 1947. To read more of my review and...

...remains the only person to throw back-to-back no-hitters. He did it back in 1938 against the Boston Bees and Brooklyn Dodgers.Weaver's pitch count steadily rose after the first three innings, but he held the Twins to one run on a fielder's...

...son of a sharecropper, who patiently endured the abuse of bigots as he broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in '47. It was called ''The Great Experiment,'' and Robinson, a four-sport star at UCLA and an Army officer...

...when Pedro Guerrero and Mariano Duncan did it against Montreal. Joe Kelley and Samuel Sheckard did it for the Brooklyn Dodgers on Sept. 23, 1908, at Cincinnati. The Dodgers weren't the only team to go deep with the bases loaded Sunday...

...not seven. I think they're very well matched." The last Subway Series was in 1956, when the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven. The Dodgers and Giants moved west in 1958, replaced by the expansion Mets in 1962. But the Mets and...

...from Subway Series past include: -- In 1956, Yankees right-hander Don Larsen pitched a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers. -- In 1955, Brooklyn left fielder Sandy Amoros robbed Yogi Berra in Game 7 as the Dodgers won their first World...

...championship in what's become known as a Subway Series. Larsen, a journeyman Yankee righthander, retired all 27 Brooklyn Dodgers he faced. It was the only perfect game as well as the only no-hitter in World Series history. Truly an event...

...another player's room and talk about what needed to be done as they staged their improbable comeback against the Brooklyn Dodgers and ultimately scripted the Miracle of Coogan's Bluff. He talked frequently about the 1962 Angels and how that...

...Shot Heard 'Round the World," the playoff home run Thomson hit off Branca to lift the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1951 NL pennant. Branca and Thomson both were three-time NL All-Stars.