Jackie Robinson, George Shuba, and the “handshake of the century”
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Jackie Robinson, George Shuba, and the “handshake of the century”

Jackie Robinson, George Shuba, and the “handshake of the century”

In 1946, when the trailblazing Jackie Robinson hit his first homer for a Dodgers farm team in an otherwise all-White league, one player, George “Shotgun” Shuba, shook his hand – an act that was by turns normal and groundbreaking. Correspondent Susan Spencer talks with sculptor Marc Mellon about his statue honoring that momentous exchange.

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