42, Jackie Robinson Story [VIDEO]: Home run for '42,' Film On Baseball Legend #1 at Box Office with $27 million

The Jackie Robinson biopic film, 42 hit a homerun at the box office this weekend. The movie, released almost exactly 66 years to the date when legend, Jackie Robinson, lifted the skeptical vail in white America, as one of the first “negroes” to play on a major league team.

The Jackie Robinson tale "42" took in $27.3 million to claim the weekend box-office championship domestically, according to studio estimates Sunday, Fox News reported. The $27.3 million opening for "42" is a record for a baseball flick in terms of straight dollars, topping the $19.5 million debut of "Moneyball" in 2011.

The highly anticipated film stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers boss Branch Rickey. Rickey was instrumental in orchestrating Robinson’s historical induction into the Major Leagues’. While specific events where highlighted in 42, the film was lacki

ng key points about Robinson’s character, according to Boseman.

Of “The Jackie Robinson Story,” Boseman said, it’s “the Hollywood version of the story. . . . It’s the real guy. He’s playing the real story. But you don’t get all of it,” Boseman told The Washington Post.

“The [1950] movie begins by saying, ‘All he ever wanted to do was play baseball.’ And it’s not true,” Boseman said. “Baseball was probably his fourth or fifth best sport. He was better at track and field, triple jump and long jump. He was definitely better in football and basketball. And he even played tennis. He was just a phenomenal athlete altogether.”

 Was the movie able to capture the true Jackie Robinson? “I think he had greatness in him that this country was not necessarily ready to accept. That old movie doesn’t really tell that story,” Boseman said.

 Like Boseman said Jackie Robinson was a well-rounded athlete, "base just happened to be the thing he was able to actualize his skill in," and on the contrary to popular belief, Robinson was not the first black player in the major leagues. The last to compete in the American Association -- then considered a major league - in the 19th century is believed to have been Moses Fleetwood Walker, according to the Cleveland.

Jackie Robinson first played as a Brooklyn Dodger, April 15th, 1947. Did you see the film?  Do you think that the film acurately captured what Jackie Robinson went through as a black American in White America’s word during the 1940’s?