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Now - watch - you play just far enough off the bag to keep both sides covered.

8 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Rhyme of the Ancient Dodger classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:18:51 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- What position you tryin' out for, Jackie.

- Shortstop.

- I can't get the ball over to first base anymore.

- If you were on first base, you wouldn't have very far to throw, would you?

- No, but I never played first base.

- You're goin' to play it now. Gimme that glove.

- A million buzzards are waitin' for you to stumble.

- Now - watch - you play just far enough off the bag to keep both sides covered.

- But you've got to get that arm workin'. You got to.

- And slowly he got the arm workin' again and pulled himself back into the lineup, stretched for the wild ones off first base 'til Rickey noticed and said...

- OK, Jackie. You're gettin' set.

- This farm team's goin' to play a few games against the Dodgers.

- Think you can make it now?

- Feel pretty sure I can make it.

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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