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Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season / Jonathan Eig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eig, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
- Robinson, Jackie.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- United States.
- African American baseball players--Biography.
- African American baseball players.
- Baseball--United States--History.
- Baseball.
- History.
- Discrimination in sports--United States.
- Discrimination in sports.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2007]
- Summary:
- World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front--and Jackie Robinson had a chance to lead the way. He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball, his swing was far from graceful, and he was assigned to play a position he had never tried before. But the biggest concern was his temper--Robinson was an angry man who played aggressively. In order to succeed he would have to control himself in the face of what promised to be a brutal assault by opponents of integration. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Jack Roosevelt Robinson
- "Some good colored players"
- The uprising
- Opening day
- Up in Harlem
- Praying for base hits
- Cardinal sins
- The great road trip
- Tearing up the pea patch
- Pee Wee's embrace
- The glorious crusade
- "A smile of almost painful joy"
- Up and down MacDonough Street
- A real gone guy
- A good thing for everybody
- The poison pen
- The unbeatable Yanks
- Dixie Walker's dilemma
- The footsteps of Enos 'Country' Slaughter
- Shadow dancing
- "We aren't afraid"
- "And the World Series is over."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780743294607
- 0743294602
- OCLC:
- 79002439
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