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class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-baseball-bio-batsthrows"><div><b>Batted:</b> Left</div><div><b>Threw:</b> Right</div></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB debut</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">May 23, 1926, for the Cincinnati Reds</td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last MLB appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">June 7, 1945, for the Brooklyn Dodgers</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">MLB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">Batting average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">.264</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">Home runs</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">Runs batted in</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">96</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;"><b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sukefcl01.shtml">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Baseball_Reference" title="Baseball Reference">Baseball Reference</a></b> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5137026#P1825" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img 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Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Teams</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-teams"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>As player</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> (<a href="/wiki/1926_in_baseball" title="1926 in baseball">1926</a>–<a href="/wiki/1931_in_baseball" title="1931 in baseball">1931</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1932_in_baseball" title="1932 in baseball">1932</a>–<a href="/wiki/1934_in_baseball" title="1934 in baseball">1934</a>, <a href="/wiki/1945_in_baseball" title="1945 in baseball">1945</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>As coach</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a> (<a href="/wiki/1943_in_baseball" title="1943 in baseball">1943</a>–<a href="/wiki/1951_in_baseball" title="1951 in baseball">1951</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a> (<a href="/wiki/1952_in_baseball" title="1952 in baseball">1952</a>–<a href="/wiki/1957_in_baseball" title="1957 in baseball">1957</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Clyde Leroy Sukeforth</b> (November 30, 1901 – September 3, 2000), nicknamed "<b>Sukey</b>", was an American <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Catcher" title="Catcher">catcher</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coach_(baseball)" title="Coach (baseball)">coach</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scout_(sport)" title="Scout (sport)">scout</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manager_(baseball)" title="Manager (baseball)">manager</a>. He was best known for scouting and signing <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_color_line" title="Baseball color line">first black player</a> in the modern era of <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Major League Baseball</a> (MLB), to the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a>, after Robinson was scouted by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Greenwade" title="Tom Greenwade">Tom Greenwade</a> in the Negro leagues. He was also instrumental in scouting and acquiring <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Clemente" title="Roberto Clemente">Roberto Clemente</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sukeforth was born in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_Maine" title="Washington, Maine">Washington, Maine</a>. His father Pearle was a dairy farmer who played baseball in his spare time. His mother Sarah "Sadie" Sukeforth (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a> Grinnell</span>). Sukeforth also had an older sister named Hazel (b. 1899).<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He graduated from <a href="/wiki/Coburn_Classical_Institute" title="Coburn Classical Institute">Coburn Classical Institute</a>, a high school in <a href="/wiki/Waterville,_Maine" title="Waterville, Maine">Waterville, Maine</a>, and later attended <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a> for two years where he starred as catcher and left fielder for the <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_Hoyas_baseball" title="Georgetown Hoyas baseball">Georgetown Hoyas baseball team</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Baseball_career">Baseball career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Baseball career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eye_injury_impaired_playing_career">Eye injury impaired playing career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Eye injury impaired playing career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After university, Sukeforth joined the <a href="/wiki/Nashua_Millionaires" title="Nashua Millionaires">Nashua Millionaires</a> of the <a href="/wiki/New_England_League" title="New England League">New England League</a> and later played for the <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Blue_Sox" title="Manchester Blue Sox">Manchester Blue Sox</a>. He was acquired by the <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_Reds" title="Cincinnati Reds">Cincinnati Reds</a> in <a href="/wiki/1926_in_baseball" title="1926 in baseball">1926</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sukeforth batted left-handed and threw right-handed, and was listed as 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 155 pounds (70 kg) during his active career. He appeared in 486 games over all or parts of ten big-league seasons (1926–34 and 1945), compiling a <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batting average</a> of .264 with 326 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">home runs</a> and 96 <a href="/wiki/Runs_batted_in" class="mw-redirect" title="Runs batted in">runs batted in</a>. </p><p>His best year in the Major Leagues was <a href="/wiki/1929_in_baseball" title="1929 in baseball">1929</a>, when he <a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">batted</a> .354 for the Reds with 84 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a> in 84 <a href="/wiki/Games_played" title="Games played">games played</a>. Two years later he lost partial sight of his right eye from being hit by a shotgun pellet while bird hunting on November 16.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was able to continue his playing career, but his batting suffered, and in <a href="/wiki/1932_in_baseball" title="1932 in baseball">1932</a> Sukeforth was traded to the <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Dodgers" title="Brooklyn Dodgers">Brooklyn Dodgers</a>. In mid-1934, the Dodgers sent Sukeforth to the <a href="/wiki/Minor_leagues" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor leagues">minor leagues</a>, where he became a <a href="/wiki/Player-manager" class="mw-redirect" title="Player-manager">player-manager</a> in 1936. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Witnessed_Robinson's_historic_signing"><span id="Witnessed_Robinson.27s_historic_signing"></span>Witnessed Robinson's historic signing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Witnessed Robinson's historic signing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sukeforth managed in the Brooklyn farm system from 1937 to 1942 with the <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Owls" title="Clinton Owls">Clinton Owls</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Class_B_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Class B (baseball)">Class B</a> <a href="/wiki/Three-I_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Three-I League">Three-I League</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Elmira_Pioneers" title="Elmira Pioneers">Elmira Pioneers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Class_A_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Class A (baseball)">Class A</a> <a href="/wiki/Eastern_League_(1938%E2%80%932020)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern League (1938–2020)">Eastern League</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Royals" title="Montreal Royals">Montreal Royals</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">top-level</a> <a href="/wiki/International_League" title="International League">International League</a> before his promotion to the Dodger coaching staff in <a href="/wiki/1943_in_baseball" title="1943 in baseball">1943</a>. He also was activated by Brooklyn at age 43 for 18 games during the first three months of the <a href="/wiki/1945_in_baseball" title="1945 in baseball">1945</a> season, the last year of the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> manpower shortage, despite not having played competitively since 1939, when he was a player-manager at Elmira. Sukeforth started 13 games as Brooklyn's catcher, and collected 15 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a>, although only one was for extra bases, a <a href="/wiki/Double_(baseball)" title="Double (baseball)">double</a> struck against <a href="/wiki/Jim_Tobin" title="Jim Tobin">Jim Tobin</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Braves_(baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Braves (baseball)">Boston Braves</a> on April 24. He batted .288 in 55 at-bats. </p><p>Sukeforth soon retired permanently from the playing ranks and resumed his former job as a Brooklyn coach and occasional special-assignment scout. In that capacity, later that season, he would make history. Dodger president <a href="/wiki/Branch_Rickey" title="Branch Rickey">Branch Rickey</a> was making secret plans to break organized baseball's six-decades-long "gentleman's agreement" that enforced racial segregation. In August, Rickey sent Sukeforth to <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, where Robinson's team, the <a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Monarchs" title="Kansas City Monarchs">Kansas City Monarchs</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Negro_leagues" class="mw-redirect" title="Negro leagues">Negro leagues</a>, was slated to play the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_American_Giants" title="Chicago American Giants">Chicago American Giants</a>. Rickey told Sukeforth to urge Robinson to come back with him to Brooklyn for a meeting with Rickey and the Dodgers. Sukeforth met Robinson again in <a href="/wiki/Toledo,_Ohio" title="Toledo, Ohio">Toledo, Ohio</a>, and the two men traveled by railway to Brooklyn for the historic meeting at the Dodgers' Montague Street offices on August 28. He was the only other person in the room when Rickey told Robinson of his plans to offer him a contract to play in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> in <a href="/wiki/1946_in_baseball" title="1946 in baseball">1946</a>. </p><p>Then, in <a href="/wiki/1947_in_baseball" title="1947 in baseball">1947</a>, Sukeforth—functioning in the unwanted role of interim manager of the Dodgers after the suspension of <a href="/wiki/Leo_Durocher" title="Leo Durocher">Leo Durocher</a>—wrote Robinson's name into the Dodger lineup on Opening Day on April 15 against the Braves at <a href="/wiki/Ebbets_Field" title="Ebbets Field">Ebbets Field</a>. </p><p>In addition to serving on Durocher's coaching staff and his scouting assignments for Dodgers president Rickey, he worked behind the scenes in 1946 to help create the new <a href="/wiki/Nashua_Dodgers" title="Nashua Dodgers">Nashua Dodgers</a> of the Class B <a href="/wiki/New_England_League" title="New England League">New England League</a>. Sukeforth helped the <a href="/wiki/Nashua_Dodgers" title="Nashua Dodgers">Nashua</a> team forge ties with the <a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a> community, easing the racial integration of the league when <a href="/wiki/Roy_Campanella" title="Roy Campanella">Roy Campanella</a> and <a href="/wiki/Don_Newcombe" title="Don Newcombe">Don Newcombe</a> were assigned to that club. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Turned_down_two_managerial_opportunities">Turned down two managerial opportunities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Turned down two managerial opportunities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sukeforth won his only two games as the Dodgers' manager in 1947, 5–3 and 12–6, both against Boston. Durocher had been suspended for the entire 1947 season by <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_Baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Commissioner of Baseball">Commissioner of Baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Happy_Chandler" title="Happy Chandler">Happy Chandler</a> because of "conduct detrimental to baseball." But Sukeforth and a fellow coach, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Blades" title="Ray Blades">Ray Blades</a>, both turned down the opportunity to serve as acting manager for the rest of the season; ultimately, Brooklyn scout and longtime Rickey associate <a href="/wiki/Burt_Shotton" title="Burt Shotton">Burt Shotton</a> assumed that role, and Shotton led the Dodgers to the <a href="/wiki/1947_World_Series" title="1947 World Series">1947 National League pennant</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/1951_in_baseball" title="1951 in baseball">1951</a>, when Dodger manager <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Dressen" title="Chuck Dressen">Chuck Dressen</a> needed a reliever to face the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants_(NL)" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Giants (NL)">New York Giants</a>' <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Thomson" title="Bobby Thomson">Bobby Thomson</a> in the ninth inning of the decisive third game of the National League pennant playoff, Sukeforth, coaching in the Dodger <a href="/wiki/Bullpen" title="Bullpen">bullpen</a>, passed over <a href="/wiki/Carl_Erskine" title="Carl Erskine">Carl Erskine</a> and sent in <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Branca" title="Ralph Branca">Ralph Branca</a>, who gave up Thomson's "<a href="/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)" title="Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)">shot heard 'round the world</a>". On January 9, 1952, Sukeforth resigned as a Dodgers coach,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then a few weeks later signed to be a coach with the <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh_Pirates" title="Pittsburgh Pirates">Pittsburgh Pirates</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where Rickey was executive vice president and <a href="/wiki/General_manager" title="General manager">general manager</a>. </p><p>There, as a coach and occasional scout, he played a pivotal role in the drafting of <a href="/wiki/Roberto_Clemente" title="Roberto Clemente">Roberto Clemente</a> from the Brooklyn organization in the <a href="/wiki/1954_in_baseball" title="1954 in baseball">1954</a> <a href="/wiki/Rule_5_draft" title="Rule 5 draft">Rule 5 draft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rickey initially sent Sukeforth to scout former major league pitcher <a href="/wiki/Joe_Black" title="Joe Black">Joe Black</a>, who was toiling for Brooklyn's <a href="/wiki/Montreal_Royals" title="Montreal Royals">Montreal Royals</a> <a href="/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)" title="Triple-A (baseball)">Triple-A</a> affiliate. Instead, Sukeforth became interested in a 20-year-old Dodger prospect: Clemente. Sukeforth told Pirates' beat writer Les Biederman, "I knew then he'd be our first draft choice." Before leaving, he recalled, "I told Montreal manager <a href="/wiki/Max_Macon" title="Max Macon">Max Macon</a> to take good care of 'our boy' and see that he didn't get hurt." Good to his word, the Pirates drafted Clemente on November 22, 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Clemente forged an 18-year Hall of Fame career with the Pirates, leading them to the <a href="/wiki/1960_World_Series" title="1960 World Series">1960</a> and <a href="/wiki/1971_World_Series" title="1971 World Series">1971</a> world championships, compiling an even 3,000 <a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">hits</a>, and earning an immediate elevation to Cooperstown after his untimely death in a plane crash while on a humanitarian mission to <a href="/wiki/1972_Nicaragua_earthquake" title="1972 Nicaragua earthquake">earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua</a> on December 31, 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Once again passing up a Major League managing assignment after turning down the chance to succeed Pirate skipper <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Bragan" title="Bobby Bragan">Bobby Bragan</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on August 3, <a href="/wiki/1957_in_baseball" title="1957 in baseball">1957</a>, Sukeforth retired as a coach at the end of the 1957 season.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_career">Later career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sukeforth remained in the Pirates organization as a scout and occasional <a href="/wiki/Minor_League_Baseball" title="Minor League Baseball">minor league</a> manager through <a href="/wiki/1965_in_baseball" title="1965 in baseball">1965</a>. Later, he worked as a scout for the <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Braves" title="Atlanta Braves">Atlanta Braves</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sukeforth was married twice. His first wife Helen (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a> Miller</span>), whom he married in 1933, died from complications after childbirth, two weeks after the birth of their daughter Helen (b. 1938) who was named so in honor of her mother. Sukeforth remarried in December 1951, to Grethel Winchenbach (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a> Pitcher</span>), a widow from <a href="/wiki/Waldoboro,_Maine" title="Waldoboro, Maine">Waldoboro, Maine</a>, and they remained together until her death in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-sabr_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sabr-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sukeforth died at the age of ninety-eight at his home in Waldoboro; he was buried in Brookland Cemetery, next to his first wife.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through his daughter, Sukeforth had four grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Sukeforth&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sukeforth appears in the <a href="/wiki/Norman_Rockwell" title="Norman Rockwell">Norman Rockwell</a> painting <i><a href="/wiki/Tough_Call" title="Tough Call">Tough Call</a></i>. </p><p>In <i><a href="/wiki/42_(film)" title="42 (film)">42</a></i>, the 2013 <a href="/wiki/Sports_film" title="Sports film">sports film</a> about Robinson's breaking of the <a href="/wiki/Baseball_color_line" title="Baseball color line">baseball color line</a>, Sukeforth is played by actor <a href="/wiki/Toby_Huss" title="Toby Huss">Toby Huss</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Northern New England chapter of the <a 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