{"id":1234,"date":"2019-02-06T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T09:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2019-02-05T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T15:45:38","slug":"heres-to-you-mr-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2019\/02\/06\/heres-to-you-mr-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s To You, Mr. Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Growing up as a devoted Brooklyn Dodgers fan, Richard Frank \u201957 was \u201cas proud as could be when they signed Jackie Robinson in 1947,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Frank would visit Ebbets Field as often as he could, moving around the stands to get closer and closer to the Dodgers\u2019 dugout. \u201cI wanted to be like him on the basepaths and off the field as well.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">On June 9, 1969, at age 33, Frank finally had the chance to meet his childhood role model. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">That day, he was in Harlem with another legend, writer Norman Mailer, because he was the photographer for the Mailer-Breslin mayoral campaign. Leading up to this job, Frank had worked as an NBC reporter and television producer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Mailer and his campaign team were in Harlem to speak to constituents. \u201cAs we were walking up 125th Street,\u201d Frank remembers, \u201csuddenly, we ran into Jackie Robinson. He had been talking with local citizens about the worth of finding meaningful jobs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Frank took a moment to photograph Robinson and introduce himself. \u201cHe was just as gracious as ever,\u201d Frank says. \u201cI let Jackie know he meant so much to me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Frank &#8217;57 shares the story of meeting his childhood hero while casually strolling New York with Norman Mailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[290,112],"coauthors":[135],"class_list":["post-1234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni-updates","tag-baseball","tag-sports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-jU","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/09\/ALUMNI-ROBINSON.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}