another glance tells me that athletes have received this Congressional Gold Medal, including Roberto Clemente and Jesse Owens.  This list of winners is on the link I placed above.  Other winners include the Gershwin brothers and George M. Cohan and others from the arts, people like Lady Bird Johnson (probably her environmental work if one looked at it) and Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Gerald and Betty Ford, a wide variety of people that for whatever reason Congress chooses to honor: "Congress broadened the scope of the medal to include actors, authors, entertainers, musicians, pioneers in aeronautics and space, explorers, lifesavers, notables in science and medicine, athletes, humanitarians, public servants, and foreign recipients."

 

The Congressional Medal of Honor is reserved for people in the military.

 

Based on that, Jackie Robinson is entirely deserving of the Congressional Gold Medal.

i agree..this is a civilian award...sorry for my earlier rant and good thing one of us kept his head

Ditto

i truly feel like an ass in the wrong assumption.

dont worry..we wont hold it against ya..too much

 

seruously dont worry about it...we have all f***ed up before..

the only poster who has never made a mistake in posting is the one who has never posted

 

was it just last month I had Tampa Bay in the NL?