- What do you think of Brooklyn, Robinson?
- I got nothin' against it.

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

You can hear this line at 00:10:01 in the radio play.

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- Strike two! (2)

- That's when my double whammy started showing me where them two strikes come from.

- I see the scouts carry Robinson in to see Brooklyn's president, Branch Rickey.

- Rickey puts his cigar stub in the corner of' his mouth, he squints his eyes, and he examines Robinson, like a pawnbroker lookin' over a gold watch.

- And he give him the acid test.

- What do you think of Brooklyn, Robinson?

- I got nothin' against it.

- What do you think off Jim Crow?

- I'd like to knock the...

- OK! I know what you mean. That's part of the proposition.

- Maybe you'll make it. Maybe you won't.

- I never seen you play. My scouts say you're OK.

- But for this we need a cool, quiet sorta fellow, one who can keep outta trouble and not let razzin' get him. You know what I mean?

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Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Quotes 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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