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An oral history of baseball & racial integration,

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By Jackie Robinson (au); Spike Lee (in)
Year: 2005
Pages: 220
Binding Paperback
ISBN 975251724

Product Code: 1422366227

Description

An oral history of baseball & racial integration, as told by its greatest players to the man who broke the color line, Jackie Robinson. This classic features candid interviews conducted by Robinson with the ballplayers who played & lived through the first generation of racial integration in baseball. A who’s who of baseball legends -- Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, Roy Campanella, Larry Doby, Carl Erskine, Elston Howard, Don Newcombe, Frank Robinson & many more -- come together to create a mesmerizing book about the effects of integration on baseball & society. An important document of the struggle for civil rights, “If baseball has done it -- achieve integration -- the rest of society can too.” Photos.

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