What will the highly-publicized Jackie Robinson do today? Will organized baseball's first Negro player make good, or will he fail?

11 seconds sound clip from the The Jackie Robinson Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:43:17.663 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- I can't break in with just a scratch hit and a fielder's choice. I've gotta set them on their ear.

- I've gotta be the best ballplayer they've ever seen anywhere. That's the spirit.

- And that's a fact, ladies and gentlemen. 25,000 people are here to see baseball history made today at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City for this, the opening of the 1946 International League season.

- Even though the ballgame has started, excited fans are still crowding in to this huge concrete horseshoe.

- It's a holiday throng, eager and expectant, but with one thing in mind...

- What will the highly-publicized Jackie Robinson do today? Will organized baseball's first Negro player make good, or will he fail?

- You fans out there, what do you think?

(Crowd booing)

- Well, I guess he's got the jitters.

- Anybody can make an error.

- That was an awfully easy chance.

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