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Table of Contents:
Equal But Separate: Before Jackie Changed Everything; He Made His Own History: Monte Irvin Might Have Been First; Second, and Second to None: Larry Doby Bears the Burden with Grace; A Closed World Opens Up: Ed Charles Finds There Is a Chance; Worse Than You Imagine: Mudcat Grant Dodged the Bullets; Looking Back with Regret: Ernie Banks Was Playing Baseball; The Pinstripes Go Black and White: Elston Howard Hid the Pain; You Know You Go in the Back Door: Alvin Jackson Reports to Spring Training; I'm No Jackie Robinson: Too Much Bigotry for Charlie Murray; Recognition 50 Years Later: Chuck Harmon Gets His Own Street; Sometimes People Live and Learn: Maury Wills Finds a White Ally; Forever Is Not Too long to Wait: Emmett Ashford Umpires Alone; Most Valuable Attitude: Frank Robinson Made Them Better; The Best of Them Don't Always Understand: Tommy Davis Reminds the Dodgers of their Heritage; Living Up to His Own Image: Bob Gibson Overcomes the Stereotype; Joan of Arc of Baseball: Curt Flood Sacrifices His Career; Breaking That Record and Bigoted Hearts: Henry Aaron Sets the Record; What Would Jackie Do: Dusty Baker Finds His Answers; Coping with the Ever-Present Danger: Lou Brock Outsmarted the Threats.

About the Author :
Steve Jacobson is an award-winning sports journalist and author. A sports reporter and columnist for Newsday for 44 years, he was nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize, awarded first prize by the Associated Press of New York for his coverage of the 1986 World Series, and recognized as one of the Top Five Sports Columnists numerous times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He is the author of The Best Team Money Could Buy and The Pitching Staff: A Classic Portrait of Baseball's Most Unique Fraternity, and the coauthor of Nolan Ryan, Strike-Out King and Tom Seaver's Baseball Is My Life. In 2004 he created, interviewed, and helped script the documentary Jackie's Disciples for ESPN. He lives on Long Island in New York.

Review :
"A significant piece of baseball and American history. Revealing, moving, and long overdue." --Bob Costas, sports announcer, NBC-TV "This is a story that we need to continually tell. It goes beyond baseball, it goes beyond America." --Ken Burns, award-winning filmmaker, Baseball "Brings forth...a missing link between the fragmentary integration of baseball, beginning with Jackie Robinson's dramatic arrival, and today's conditions." --Marvin Miller, retired executive director, Major League Baseball Players Association "For all fans who appreciate well-told stories of perseverance and inspiration." --Tom Verducci, senior writer, Sports Illustrated "A must-read for baseball fans...a chronicle of a nation in transition with black ballplayers as courageous agents of change." --Mike Bevans, executive editor, Sports Illustrated "A valuable new book." -- The New York Times "Recommended." -- Library Journal "An important work for all baseball fans and historians." -- New York Daily News


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781556526398
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Chicago Review Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 226 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1556526393
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America
  • Width: 152 mm


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