’42′ is a tribute to the baseball player Jackie Robinson and how he changed Major Legue Baseball. Here is more on what the movie is about:
“Ford will star as Branch Rickey, the innovative Major League Baseball executive who is best known for breaking MLB’s color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to a minor league contract in 1945. Two years later, at the start of the 1947 major league baseball season, Robinson was signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers major league baseball team with the help of Rickey. Rickey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.”
The movie will be coming to theaters on April 12, 2013. It will be interesting to see the part that Christopher Meloni will have in the movie.
Source: Comingsoon.net – “New Release Dates for 42 and Lego”
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