In the meantime, he is able to join sponsors and the producers of "42" in taking students from Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn's coastal Coney Island neighborhood to a screening of the movie on the 66rd anniversary of the dayRobinson broke major league baseball's color barrier.
The chain won't release sales numbers, but "we can confirm reports that it was a record-setting day, " said Steve Robinson, Chick-fil-A's executive vice president of marketing.
But there's some precedent for that: David Thompson (in 1978) and David Robinson (in 1994) scored more than 70 on the last dayofa regular season to have their names etched in basketball history.