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Blackout : the untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training / Chris Lamb.
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| Authors: |
Lamb, Chris, 1958-
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| Call number: |
796.357 Robinson LAM |
| Publisher: |
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2004. |
| Publication date: |
c2004. |
| Subject: |
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- United States.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
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| Title: |
Blackout : the untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training / Chris Lamb. |
| Physical description: |
xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents note: |
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. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-216) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0803229569 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803280475 (pbk.) |
| LCCN: |
2004000614 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1040410
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| Bib No.: |
1040410 |
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