| Description |
xii, 226 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index. |
| Contents |
Fried Chicken and Hard-boiled Eggs -- Jim Crow Baseball Must End -- Rickey and Robinson Challenge Segregated Baseball -- Robinson and Wright Take Their Game to Sanford -- Robinson and Wright Flee Sanford by Sundown -- Robinson Takes the Field -- Cheap Talk, Mexican Millionaires, and Eddie Klep -- Lights Out in Deland and Locked Gates in Jacksonville -- Integration Stands Its Ground against Southern Intolerance -- Robinson Wins the Day during His First Game in Montreal. |
| Subject |
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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Discrimination in sports -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0803229569 cloth alkaline paper |
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0803204310 electronic |
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