| Description |
xxii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Selected papers from a conference held Apr. 3-5, 1997, on the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Jackie, do they know? An ode to Jackie Robinson / Tom (Tommy) Hawkins -- In the eye of the storm : 1947 in world perspective / Joram Warmund -- Men of conscience / Peter Golenbock -- Moses Fleetwood Walker : Jackie Robinson's accidental predecessor / Sidney Gendin -- Monte Irvin : up from sharecropping / Jack B. Moore -- It happened in Brooklyn : reminiscences of a fan / Robert Gruber -- Interborough iliad / Peter Williams -- |
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Father and son at Ebbets Field / Peter Levine -- Ten-year-old Dodger fan welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn / Ivan W. Hametz -- Mah nishtanah / Henry Foner -- Baseball on the radical agenda : the Daily worker and Sunday worker journalistic campaign to desegregate Major League baseball, 1933-1947 / Kelly E. Rusinack -- White Dodgers, Black Dodgers / Lester Rodney -- Robinson--Robeson / Bill Mardo -- Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson : race, identity, and ethnic power / Joseph Dorinson -- |
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Burt Shotton : the crucible of 1947 / Robert A. Moss -- Jackie Robinson on opening day, 1947-1956 / Lyle Spatz -- Jackie Robinson and the third age of modern baseball / David Shiner -- Jackie Robinson and the emancipation of Latin American baseball players / Samuel O. Regalado -- Two titans and the mystery man : Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers partners, 1944-1950 / Lee Lowenfish -- Robinson in 1947 : measuring an uncertain impact / Henry D. Fetter -- |
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"Do not go gently into that good night" : race, the baseball establishment, and the retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson / Ron Briley -- Kareem's omission? Jackie Robinson, Black profile in courage / Patrick Henry -- Should we rely on the marketplace to end discrimination? What the integration of baseball tells us / Robert Cherry -- Greetings / Carl Erskine -- Keynote address / Roger Rosenblatt. |
| Subject |
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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African American baseball players -- Biography.
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Discrimination in sports.
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| Added Author |
Dorinson, Joseph, 1936-
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Warmund, Joram, 1939-
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| ISBN |
0765603179 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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