Rickey & Robinson : the true, untold story of the integration of baseball / Roger Kahn.

"In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate secondhand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer can pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kahn, Roger
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Rodale, [2014]
Subjects:	Rickey, Branch, > 1881-1965. Baseball team owners > United States > Biography. Robinson, Jackie, > 1919-1972. African American baseball players > Biography. Baseball players > United States > Biography. Baseball > United States > History > 20th century. Discrimination in sports > United States. SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. African American baseball players. Baseball. Baseball players. Baseball team owners. Discrimination in sports. United States. 1900 - 1999 History.
Genre:	Biography. History.
Physical Description:	xi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	Rickey and Robinson.
Format:	Book

Contents:

"Adventure ... all adventure"
Contradictions
Civil wrongs
Coming to Brooklyn
The battle lines of the republic
The original big Red Machine
A meeting for the ages
Show the bums the door
The power of the prose
Branch and Mr. Robinson
North of the border
It happened in Brooklyn
Recessional
Afterword : Grand larceny
Chronological list of steals of home by Jackie Robinson
The pioneers.