An edition of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (2007)

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An edition of Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (2007)

Opening day

the story of Jackie Robinson's first season

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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.

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Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Pages
323

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Subjects

Baseball players, African American baseball players, Baseball, Discrimination in sports, Biography, History, Robinson, Jackie, -- 1919-1972, New York Times reviewed, Large type books, Baseball, history, Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, African american athletes

People

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)

Places

United States

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2007, Simon & Schuster
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Opening Day
2007, Thorndike Press
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)
July 18, 2007, Thorndike Press
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Table of Contents

Jack Roosevelt Robinson
Some good colored players
The uprising
Opening day
Up in Harlem
The Brown bomber
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 Avenue
A real gone guy
A good thing for everyone?
The poison pen
The unbeatable yanks
Dixie Walker's dilemma
The footsteps of enos 'country' slaughter
Shadow dancing
We aren't afraid?
Wait till next year.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
796.357092, B
Library of Congress
GV865.R6 E35 2007, GV865.R6E35 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
323

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17564697M
ISBN 13
9780743294607
LCCN
2007001249
OCLC/WorldCat
79002439
LibraryThing
2510114
Goodreads
566626

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL8443369W

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Work Description

A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season during which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier offers a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates.

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