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Opening day [sound recording] the story of Jackie Robinson's first season / Jonathan Eig.

Eig, Jonathan. (Author). Allen, Richard, 1957- (Added Author). Tantor Media. (Added Author).

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World War II had just ended. Democracy had triumphed. Now Americans were beginning to press for justice on the home front--and Jackie 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 a position he had never tried before. But the biggest concern was his temper--Robinson was an angry man who played aggressively. 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. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, this a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era.

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  • ISBN: 1400104343
  • ISBN: 140013434X
  • ISBN: 1400154340
  • ISBN: 9781400104345
  • ISBN: 9781400134342
  • ISBN: 9781400154340
  • Physical Description: 10 sound discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor Audio, c2007.

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Read by Richard Allen.

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Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
African American baseball players > Biography.
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Baseball > United States > History.
Discrimination in sports > United States.
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