This week we tell the story of Jackie Robinson, famous star player of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in a chapter entitled The Rhyme of the Ancient Dodger.
10 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Rhyme of the Ancient Dodger classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:00:31 in the radio play.
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- Destination Freedom, dramatizations of the great democratic heritage of the Negro people...
- Through the neon jungles of Brooklyn, New York, walks Sammy the Whammy...
- An Ancient Dodger, a man Brooklyn's barbers believe is dead.
- But of his glittering eyes baseball fans live in dread.
- He stalks the streets like a graveyard ghost. Hands outstretched like he's looking for a quarter.
- Inspecting the citizens from maids to the mayor till he spies a dame who's missed a game.
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