Smith had to watch the games from the black-only bleachers
- Through moments of uncertainty, to ones of comfort, the one constant in Jackie’s career was Wendell Smith.
- No matter what the weather was like, Jackie found solace in looking up at the stands to see Smith slugging away in the stands, trying to capture the moment for all of America to read.
- This resilience was significant not just to cement his moral upcoming, but to spread the story of Jackie Robinson throughout America which, without Smith’s reporting, would have been lost to infamy
“We would see Wendell sitting up there in the black bleachers typing his story. They wouldn’t even let him in the press box, it was worse than you could ever imagine”
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