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