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Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season / Jonathan Eig. |
| Authors: | Eig, Jonathan. |
| Call number: | 796.357 Robinson, J.R. EIG |
| Publisher: | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007. |
| Publication date: | 2007. |
| Subject: |
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
African American baseball players -- Biography. Baseball -- United States -- History. Discrimination in sports -- United States. Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972. |
| Title: | Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season / Jonathan Eig. |
| Physical description: | x, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | Jack Roosevelt Robinson -- Some good colored players -- The uprising -- Opening day -- Up in Harlem -- Praying for base hits -- Cardinal sins -- The great road trip -- Tearing up the pea patch -- Pee-wee's embrace -- The glorious crusade -- A smile of almost painful joy -- Up and down MacDonough Street -- A real gone guy -- A good thing for everybody -- The poison pen -- The unbeatable yanks -- Dixie Walker's dilemma -- The footsteps of Enos 'Country' Slaughter -- Shadow dancing -- We aren't afraid? -- And the World Series is over. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780743294607 0743294602 |
| LCCN: | 2007001249 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1088591 |
| Bib No.: | 1088591 |
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