Posted by Trott

My birthday is looming and I'm going to celebrate over the course of four days by eating at four pizza places (all rumored to be excellent) that I've never been to.

Thanks to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, I am now aware that I am behind the times on pizza in the city.

So here's the schedule:

1. Little Star on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2005
2. Tomasso's on Thursday, 23-June-2005
3. Pauline's on Friday, 24-June-2005
4. A16 on Saturday, 25-June-2005

Raconteur Coach Bob told me a great story today about Communists protesting in the stands at Ebbets Field demanding that the Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson in the 1940s. I only wish I could see a photograph of a sign saying "Jews, Blacks, Italians, and Irish Say: Hire Robinson." (And if it didn't happen that way, maybe I don't want to know.)

Additionally, Raconteur Coach Bob reports that Robinson was signed on the same date as the first evening of Passover. So, when one Jewish Communist protester (who happened to be the youngest son in his family) was asked at the Seder why that night was different from other nights, he responded that it was because God had seen fit to have the Dodgers do the honorable and moral thing. The man's father responded that it was a loose reading of the Haggadah but that he would accept the answer.

I'm largely ignorant about the details of Jackie Robinson's life. But a Web search confirms that the Communist Party was, in fact, actively campaigning to end segregation in baseball. Ironically, according to a New York Times article, Robinson was "[f]ervently anti-Communist."

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