Roger Dorn wrote:How Bad Will the Phillies Look in the New Jackie Robinson movie "42"?
NOT GOOD: You know that part in the trailer for 42 where Jackie Robinson gets beaned in the face? That happened against the Phillies. You know that part that they’re not showing in the trailer (probably because it’s SO RACIST) that shows Ben Chapman yelling racial epithets at Robinson so much during the first two-games of a three-game series that he received a letter from commissioner Happy Chandler? Chapman was the manager of the Phillies (Fun Fact: The Phils P.R. team had Chapman meet with the black media, “explaining that ‘bench jockeying’ was a rich baseball tradition, that his team called DiMaggio ‘The Wop’ and White Korowski ‘The Polack.’”). You know that thing when Chapman — later, in an effort to fix his public image of “being a giant racist” — posed for a photo op with Robinson but refused to shake his hand, instead opting to awkwardly hold the same baseball bat as him? He was proudly wearing the Phils uni. And by casting the nice-guy Alan Tudyk (Dodgeball, Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil, Suburgatory, Firefly) as Chapman, it somehow looks even worse.
man, this movie might ruin our reputation
