Winterbound baseball fans pass the time in hot-stove-league discussions of ballplayers, batting and fielding averages and the prospects for the coming season. Last week in the Jackie Robinson Show (ABC, Sun. 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.), they found a fact-filled radio capsule to help them through the dull months.
Husky (6 ft., 190 Ibs.), prematurely grey Jackie Robinson, slugging second baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League's most valuable player for 1949, served up a Louella Parsons-style program containing some gossipy nuggets. Examples: Eddie Waitkus, shot last summer by a love-crazed girl in...
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