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Fussman, Cal.

After Jackie : pride, prejudice, and baseball's forgotten heroes : an oral history / Cal Fussman.

1st ed.

New York : ESPN Books, 2007.

xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Influence.

Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.

African American baseball players -- Biography.

Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History.

Biographies.

Permission to dream / Henry Aaron -- The meaning of Jackie Robinson / Cal Fussman -- 1. A definition of pressure -- 2. Days of the Zulu Cannibal Giants -- 3. Guess who? -- 4. Old bones -- 5. A little discussion -- 6. New obstacles -- 7. A lot of ways to hope -- 8. Life and death -- 9. Symbol of influence -- 10. Red light, green lights, Cha-Cha-Cha -- 11. The sound of silence -- 12. Flood of money -- 13. Black power -- 14. The home run king -- 15. Fast backward -- 16. Respect -- Voices -- The facts about memory.

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

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9781933060187

1933060182

85827446

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