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11 April 2013 2:30 PM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

By Tara Fowler

It's a film that's been 20 years in the making: a biopic on Jackie Robinson, the man to break the color barrier in baseball. Sure, there've been others, such as 1950's "The Jackie Robinson Story" (starring Robinson himself) or TNT's "The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson" or HBO's "Soul of the Game." And yet, there's never been one like this weekend's "42," starring Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey, the Dodgers' general manager who signed him. I don't want to spoil it, so all I can say is, don't miss seeing "42." But to prepare you, here are five interesting facts you didn't know about the man himself:

1) Robinson's older brother Mack finished second behind Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics: James was not the only competitor to break the standing Olympic record for the 200-meter dash that year. Matthew Robinson, also known as Mack, broke that »

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