Chabon on Obama

Michael Chabon compares Obama to Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente:

I saw grace, the grace of Robinson and Clemente, in the way Mr. Obama balanced a steadfast refusal to surrender to anger with an equally staunch refusal to deny or repudiate its enduring legacy, for good and ill, in the history of race in America. There was grace in the intelligence and abandon of Robinson running the bases, in the fatal arc of a Clemente throw to home from deep right field, in the steadiness and candor that Mr. Obama brought to bear in making his difficult speech on race in America.

I recommend the whole article. If you've read Summerland, you know Chabon's love of baseball, so it's a natural his mind would go there.