An edition of Baseball's great experiment: Jackie Robinson and his legacy (1983)

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An edition of Baseball's great experiment: Jackie Robinson and his legacy (1983)

Baseball's great experiment

Jackie Robinson and his legacy

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In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's explosive entrance into major league baseball. Robinson has become a national icon, his name a virtual synonym for pathbreaker. Indeed, much has transpired between this young African-American's first bold strides around the baseball diamonds of a segregated America and General Manager Bob Watson's pride in assembling 1996 World Champion New York Yankees.

Recognizing this monumental event in America's continuing struggle for integration, Jules Tygiel has expanded his highly acclaimed Baseball's Great Experiment. In a new afterword, he addresses the mythology surrounding Robinson's achievements, his overall effect on baseball and other sports, and the enduring legacy that Robinson has left for African Americans and American society.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
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413

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Baseball players, Baseball, Race relations, Biography, History, Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, Baseball, history, United states, race relations, African american athletes, Baseball, biography, Robinson, jackie , 1919-1972, Baseball players--united states--biography, Baseball--history, Baseball--united states--history, Gv865.r6 t93 2008, 796.357092 b
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Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
January 28, 2008, Oxford University Press, USA
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Baseball's great experiment: Jackie Robinson and his legacy
2008, Oxford University Press
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Baseball's great experiment: Jackie Robinson and his legacy
1997, Oxford University Press
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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
February 4, 1993, Oxford University Press, USA
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Baseball's great experiment: Jackie Robinson and his legacy
1984, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
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Baseball's great experiment: Jackie Robinson and his legacy
1983, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-398) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.357/092, B
Library of Congress
GV865.R6 T93 1997, GV865.R6T93 1997

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xii, 413 p. :
Number of pages
413

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OL999693M
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baseballsgreatex0000tygi
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0195106199, 0195106202
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96038551
OCLC/WorldCat
35318854
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374200
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1188664
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"In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neglected stories of other African-American players--such as Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron--who helped transform our national pastime into an integrated game. Drawing on dozens of interviews with players and front office executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and personal papers, Tygiel provides the most telling and insightful account of Jackie Robinson's influence on American baseball and society. The anniversary issue features a new foreword by the author."--

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Opening Day of the baseball season was always a festive occasion in Jersey City on the banks of the Passaic River.
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