In all the Jackie Robinson tributes during this 50th-anniversary year, none has told the story of the man who broke the color line in major league baseball from a kid's perspective. Now Nickelodeon does.
``Nickelodeon Sports Theatre with Shaquille O'Neal'' presents ``First Time'' (9 p.m. tomorrow and repeating at 7 p.m. Tuesday), a well-written and equally well-acted fictional story of Troy Davis, a 13-year-old African-American boy whose greatest ambition is to play shortstop for the (pre-Robinson) Brooklyn Dodgers.
Shielded from racism by loving parents and nurturing friends, Troy's dream collides with the ugly reality of 1947 America when taunting from a classmate and rival - ``You ever seen this color on the Dodgers?'' - leads to a fight at school, which leads to a trip to the principal's office.