CONSTRUCTING BANALITY: The Trivialization of the Jackie Robinson Legacy

In the days leading up to the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the colorline in baseball in 1947, veteran Major League Baseball star (and conceivably borderline Hall-of-Fame candidate) Frank Thomas was asked if he ever pondered Jackie Robinson’s role in setting the stage for modern...

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Zusammenfassung:	In the days leading up to the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the colorline in baseball in 1947, veteran Major League Baseball star (and conceivably borderline Hall-of-Fame candidate) Frank Thomas was asked if he ever pondered Jackie Robinson’s role in setting the stage for modern American sport. To the bewilderment (read: disgust) of many, Thomas responded almost stoically, “Not really. I’m really more about the New Age.”² As difficult as it is to imagine, given the atmosphere surrounding the approach of this much-heralded milestone, and whatever Thomas meant when he referred to himself as a product of a so-called