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Two pioneers : how Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson transformed baseball-and America / Robert C. Cottrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cottrell, Robert C., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- Jewish baseball players.
- United States.
- Greenberg, Hank.
- Jewish baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
- Robinson, Jackie.
- African American baseball players--Biography.
- African American baseball players.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2012]
- Contents:
- 1 Discrimination and the National Pastime 1
- 2 Anti-Semitism and a Detroit Tiger 20
- 3 A Major League Star 32
- 4 Baseball in a Time of War 58
- 5 Racism and the Making of a Sports Star 75
- 6 Out of School and Into the Army 89
- 7 The Color Barrier Remains 107
- 8 Greenberg Returns 128
- 9 The Signing of Jackie Robinson 138
- 10 A Year of Transition and Hope 155
- 11 Greenberg's Final Season and Baseball's Great Experiment 172
- 12 A Tiger's Horizons Expand 195
- 13 The Greatest Brooklyn Dodger 208
- 14 Jackie Robinson's Final Years 225
- 15 Two Pioneers 235.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597978422
- 1597978426
- OCLC:
- 773023747
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