After Jackie : : Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes : an Oral History
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To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the breaking of baseball's color barrier, an exploration of Jackie Robinson's impact and legacy by the people whose lives were transformed by his courage. When Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he forever changed the game of baseball--and America itself. Sportswriter Fussman traces Robinson's enormous legacy in sports, politics, and the civil rights movement through the men (and women) who came after him. With moving and intimate interviews of more than one hundred former major league players of African-American descent, as well as such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, and Walter Cronkite, among others, this book recalls the day one man altered history for so many, and the history that followed.--From publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : ESPN Books, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xi, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1933060182
9781933060187
SUBJECTS
Robinson, Jackie, -- 1919-1972.
Robinson, Jackie, -- 1919-1972 -- Influence.
Baseball players -- Biography.
African American baseball players -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- History.