Jackie & Campy : the untold story of their rocky relationship and the breaking of baseball's color line / William C. Kashatus.

"As star players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball's color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be natural allies. But the two men were divided by a rivalry going far beyond...

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Main Author:	Kashatus, William C., 1959-
Language:	English
Published:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Robinson, Jackie, > 1919-1972. Campanella, Roy, > 1921-1993. African American baseball players > Biography. Baseball players > United States > Biography. Male friendship > United States. Racism in sports > United States. Discrimination in sports > United States.
Genre:	Biography.
Physical Description:	x, 234 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	Jackie and Campy.
Format:	Book