The film follows Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, as he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and highlights the bond that formed between Robinson and Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey.

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In the beginning, there was the lordly general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), a Bible-quoting, sixty-four-year-old Republican with a strong moralistic streak and a sharp eye for business.

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People often budgeted an entire afternoon for a trip to a bank branch to check their balances or to make a deposit, withdrawal or payment, explained Anthony Mwai, country general manager for IBM in East Africa.

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