Before the Game/Jackie Robinson Batter Up

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Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjEM3iCZ_q8&list=PL9IJKWo9nRDurUjN3ZvWkFegMxKLmfR-N&index=69

Date

1950-1960

Description

Mel Allen chats about the importance of health care and safe clean living prior to the start of the baseball game. The narrator introduces Jackie Robinson who discusses the danger of syphilis and his support of the health campaign.

Source

Part of the David J. Sencer CDC Museum Collection at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Citation

A Telenews Production distributed by Communication Materials Center of Columbia University Press , “Before the Game/Jackie Robinson Batter Up,” The Global Health Chronicles, accessed November 22, 2024, https://globalhealthchronicles.org/items/show/8197.