Opening Day The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

Name: Opening Day The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
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ISBN: 9780743294614

ISBN-10: 0743294610

ISBN-13: 9780743294614

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Authors: Jonathan Eig

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April 15, 1947 , marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front -- and Robinson had a chance to lead the way. He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball. His swing was far from graceful. And he was assigned to play first base, a position he had never tried before that season. But the biggest concern was his temper. Robinson was an angry man who played an…

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List price: $20.99
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Prologue



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!"


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index