Conquer Club

Lootifer wrote:Yeah i thought i was about to be pleasantly surprised that PS had read some Douglas Adams.

john9blue wrote:honestly i kinda groaned when i read the title because i too assumed this was a HHGG thread, and HHGG memes are about as worn-out as portal memes at this point.

john9blue wrote:honestly i kinda groaned when i read the title because i too assumed this was a HHGG thread, and HHGG memes are about as worn-out as portal memes at this point.

DoomYoshi wrote:I was going to ask if you meant the old or new version, but the old version was actually a tv series, so I will assume you mean the new version. It was ok, but not as good as the Infocom game (which I wish I still had, as I'm sure it sells for a lot now, it came with a don't panic button and No Tea.)

MeDeFe wrote:Is Will Ferrel in the movie? The only movies involving sports in some way that I liked also had him acting in them, so I'm starting to see a pattern there.

EDINA, Minn. -- If a man is judged by the company he has kept Ronnie Rabinovitz should earn the highest marks for the unlikely company he stumbled upon more than sixty years ago when his father wrote a letter.

"Unbeknownst to me he wrote Jackie a letter and he didn't want to tell me in case he didn't get a response," Ronnie recalled Sunday talking about the letter his father wrote to Jackie Robinson in the 1950's.

Jackie Robinson didn't just write back, he signed on and became Ronnie's friend for the rest of his life.

"All thru my growing up years I'd write letters to him and he would write back to me in long hand," Ronnie said.

Jackie went to some of Ronnie's birthday parties, sent him a telegram when he graduated high school, he never lost touch teaching him as a young boy the lessons of life's hard knocks that Robinson knew better than anyone.

"I learned a long time ago that a person must be true to himself if he is to succeed," Robinson wrote in one of his many letters to Ronnie.

So how did a man who defined the early days of civil rights find such a friendship in a kid who was only two years old when Robinson broke the color line of baseball?

Ronnie can only guess.

"The only thing I can think of is that it was almost like he saw somebody, a little boy that cared and I felt like he handed me a baton of friendship and love and I felt an obligation to carry that baton on," Ronnie said.

So for the last 25 years that is what Ronnie has done.

He has told the story of his unlikely friendship with Jackie hundreds of times to children all over the country.

"I still get choked up, such a great guy, he really was," Ronnie said of his friend.

And now, with the release of the movie 42, Ronnie is remembering his childhood pal all over again.

"There was a little scene in the movie with this kid who just idolized Jackie and it shows him flipping a ball to him, I remember him flipping balls to me," Ronnie recalled with a smile.

It's taken a lifetime for Ronnie to absorb how significant his pen pal was to the world.

And there isn't a day that goes by that Ronnie isn't humbled by the company he was so lucky to keep in Jackie Robinson.

"He once said a life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives and I don't know if he every truly knew what a tremendous impact he had on mine but he sure did," Ronnie said.