What events in the movie are not historically accurate?

Thanks, Zevil.

Good question. I was wondering if all the incidents of racism did actually occur as presnted in the movie. I am not from North America and I was stunned after watching this movie how much racism was directed at the African American community particularly Jackie. I wanted to know if all the incidents did happen as per the movie.

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I watched this movie last night and was wondering how true the story was to real life.

- Some of the things listed in this thread I knew didn't happen, but a few were interesting to hear.
- I thought Jackie had a little more trouble with his teammates than the movie showed (mostly the petition which was ignore and a couple of individual guys?.
- So why did they call him Jackie, if his name was Jack?
- Also, there was quite a bit of cussing in this movie, I figured 65 years ago there wouldn't have been that much...

I think the scene with Jackie breaking the bat made sense to show the emotional pain he was feeling over the racism he had to endure.

It was believable that he could have had a meltdown out of site, but it was too convenient that Ricky was there to give him a pep talk.

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MetsDvls, also, the film shows that game in Pittsburgh as a day game, but Baseball-Reference.com says it was a night game. And Jackie's home run was not on a 3-0 pitch, and the Red Barber character reacts to it as if it won the game. It made the score 1-0 in the 4th inning. I seriously doubt the folks in the neighborhood would have been out rejoicing as depicted when Rachel is out walking the baby, not until the game was actually won. Also, to clarify, while not erroneous in the film, just not explained, that win put Brooklyn up by 10 games, clinching first but with 8 to play, 6 of which they lost.

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AND JACKIE ROBINSON NEVER STOOD AT HOME PLATE WATCHING A BALL.

You may be right about all that, but let me tell you what they did RIGHT. When the team played at home, the movie got Ebbets Field correctly. OK, it was a backdrop because it is there no longer. They also did the same when the team played the Giants in the Polo Grounds. I used to watch every home game of both teams. They had no way of broadcasting away games in those days. No satellites. I never was a fan of Robinson though. However, I cried when Roy Campanella was injured in a car crash. Besides the Duke, he was my favorite player. When Newcombe pitched, it was all Black down the middle. Campanella as catcher, Newcombe on the mound, and Robinson on Second. Back in those days, salaries were not like today and many of the players rented rooms from homeowners in Brooklyn.

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At least a few movies have included "Based on a true story," but have been entirely fictional. And even the famous mini-series, "Band of Brothers," played a little loose with reality when "dramatic license" made a better film. Even Stephen Ambrose's verbal history of Easy Company, 501 PIR, 82nd Abn Div was inaccurate about some facts. So, I have learned to be flexible when judging a movie on its historical accuracy.

Movies or films are better about communicating the feel of an event or series of events. If you want to think, analyze, and understand events, including obtaining an accurate understanding of actual events, READ!

I am one hour into the movie on my first viewing. Like other posters I was born after the events portrayed (I was born in March, 1955). I do remember watching the Civil Rights movement happen during my childhood and I have read extensively on American History. I think the movie is great.

Racial relations have improved enormously in my lifetime. Race relation have improved more than many critics argue, and not as much as many apologists claim. Nevertheless, race relations have improved. Only two generations removed from "Bull" Connor, young people today would be shocked at seeing "strange fruit" hanging from southern trees. In 1989 I walked out of a Lens Crafter store in Montgomery, Alabama wondering what struck me as strange about my purchasing experience. I was almost back to the "Q" (student officer's quarters) when I realized that the store manager was Black and his two employees were white women. Right there in Montgomery, AL, home to "Bull" Connor himself.

I think we were ashamed during WW II, not by the NAZI's treatment of Jews and other "mud races," but by the realization that we thought enough like them that we could see the similarities. We realized that it was far past time to change. Yet, it still took another generation, more than twenty years, to get the change moving.

I don't know when white people and black people will look at each other and see just another person. I do know that within the scientific community, among anthropologists there is no such thing as "race." It is now a political term. But, I am convinced that the differences me President Obama and me are about our political parties and our perceptions of economic ralitity, not about the color of a person's skin.

Jackie didn't pop up in front of the plate against Philly in his 2nd at bat. He flew out to left field as he did in his first at bat.