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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Baseball's Great Experiment Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Author: Jules Tygiel
In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's explosive entrance into major league baseball. Robinson has become a national icon, his name a virtual synonym for pathbreaker. Indeed, much has transpired between this young African-American's first bold strides around the b...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195106206
ISBN-10: 0195106202
Publication Date: 3/26/1997
Pages: 413
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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It was a good book, but a little dense and slow at times. Certainly not a riveting page turning novel. Also not a biography of Jackie Robinson. Still I learned quite a bit about a lot of early integrationist that I had never even heard of let alone known anything about.


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