Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season
Title:
Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season
Author:
Eig, Jonathan.
ISBN:
9780743294607
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Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
Physical Description:
323 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
Contents:
Jack Roosevelt Robinson -- Some good colored players -- The uprising -- Opening day -- Up in Harlem -- The Brown bomber -- 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 Avenue -- A real gone guy -- A good thing for everyone? -- The poison pen -- The unbeatable yanks -- Dixie Walker's dilemma -- The footsteps of enos 'country' slaughter -- Shadow dancing -- We aren't afraid? -- Wait till next year.
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