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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Baseball's Great Experiment Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Author: Jules Tygiel
In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neg...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195339284
ISBN-10: 0195339282
Publication Date: 2/27/2008
Pages: 448
Edition: Twenty-Fifth Anniver
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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It was a good book, but a little dense and slow at times. Certainly not a riveting page turning novel. Also not a biography of Jackie Robinson. Still I learned quite a bit about a lot of early integrationist that I had never even heard of let alone known anything about.


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