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Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season / Jonathan Eig.

by Eig, Jonathan.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972

Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.

African American baseball players -- Biography.

Baseball -- United States -- History.

Discrimination in sports -- United States.

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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001249.html

x, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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