[Ads-l] Linguistic notes from Ken Burns's "Jackie Robinson"

[Jonathan Lighter]

The formal narrator says /'prEviusli/.  New to me.

A Brooklyn fan tells that his father saw Jackie Robinson "as a brethren"
[sing.] (because he was discriminated against deaf).

And Dodgers announcer Red Barber (1908 - 1992) is heard saying in 1947 that
"This game is just as tight as a pair of new shoes on a rainy day."

JL



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