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Opening Day : The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig (2007, Hardcover)

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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 aggressive style of ball. In order to succeed he would have to control himself in the face of what promised to be a brutal assault by opponents of integration. InOpening Day, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. Along the way he offers new insights into events of sixty years ago and punctures some familiar legends. Was it true that the St. Louis Cardinals plotted to boycott their first home game against the Brooklyn Dodgers? Was Pee Wee Reese really Robinson's closest ally on the team? Was Dixie Walker his greatest foe? How did Robinson handle the extraordinary stress of being the only black man in baseball and still manage to perform so well on the field?Opening Dayis also the story of a team of underdogs that came together against tremendous odds to capture the pennant. Facing the powerful New York Yankees, Robinson and the Dodgers battled to the seventh game in one of the most thrilling World Series competitions of all time. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action,Opening Daybrings to life baseball's ultimate story.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743294602
ISBN-13
9780743294607
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57198910

Product Key Features

Book Title
Opening Day : the Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
Author
Jonathan Eig
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / History, United States / 20th Century, Baseball / General, Sociology of Sports
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Number of Pages
336 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
20.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Gv865.R6e35 2007
Table of Content
CONTENTS Prologue 1Jack Roosevelt Robinson 2"Some Good Colored Players" 3The Uprising 4Opening Day 5Up in Harlem 6Praying for Base Hits 7Cardinal Sins 8The Great Road Trip 9Tearing Up the Pea Patch 10Pee Wee's Embrace 11The Glorious Crusade 12"A Smile of Almost Painful Joy" 13Up and Down MacDonough Street 14A Real Gone Guy 15A Good Thing for Everybody 16The Poison Pen 17The Unbeatable Yanks 18Dixie Walker's Dilemma 19The Footsteps of Enos "Country" Slaughter 20Shadow Dancing 21"We Aren't Afraid" 22"And the World Series Is Over!" Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-001249
Dewey Decimal
796.357092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes