“Jackie Robinson here”, said the grandson of a sharecropper who migrated to Pasadena City College and then across the San Fernando Valley’s Hollywood Hills to Laurel Canyon to Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard (sorority row) the UCLA campus in Westwood Village…a four star letterman, regardless of his skin pigment, his eye and hand coordination, playing ping pong in the basement of the men’s gym was a foretaste of his breaking the color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers, stealing home plate in a fury of dust bowl swagger…..December 19,2016 The City that never sleeps.
