Two great Robinsons and Ken Burger

If you don't have ESPN Insider, it's worth it just for Buster Olney's baseball blog. I mention this because several of my links are taken from it.

The NY Times has a good story Cincinnati Reds player, who is back after having a kidney transplant.

I like Ken Griffey Jr.'s idea of wearing 42 on April 15th in honor of the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson integrating baseball. The entire Dodger team will do the same thing. Several players on other teams are also panning on doing it including LaTroy Hawkins.
Hawkins, a student of Negro League history, didn't hesitate when asked if he wanted to participate.
"I don't feel worthy, actually," Hawkins said. "We owe him so much. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be playing this game."

Richard Justice writes about Eddie Robinson.

I don't know Charleston Post and Courier columnist Ken Burger personally, but we've emailed a few times. He's a good man and was a friend of Casey's. Joe Posnanski wrote a nice piece on him today as he battles prostate cancer. He's writing about his battle with cancer. This is the first column on it. Other columns (out of order) are here, here, here.

In another column Burger recommends Posnanski's book on Buck O'Neil.