The daughter of pitcher Fritz Ostermueller portrayed in the new movie "42" about famed baseball player Jackie Robinson says the film unfairly characterizes her father as a racist. In the movie, Ostermueller purposely hits Robinson in the head with a fastball and then tells Robinson: “You don’t belong here.” Ostermueller’s daughter, Sherrill Ostermueller-Duesterhaus, said the incident that never happened. She said news accounts of the 1947 incident also show that her fatherr, pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates, actually threw a high inside pitch in the first inning that caught Robinson on the left wrist.
The daughter of pitcher Fritz...
