Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1993
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When it was first published in 1983, Baseball's Great Experiment received glowing praise from virtually all quarters. The Chicago Sun-Times called it "a thumpingly good baseball book," and Red Barber wrote in The New Republic that it was "by far the most comprehensive single book on the subject." "Eminently readable," added Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post Book World, "not only is this a book that is long overdue, but it turns out to be a book that was well worth the wait." Baseball's Great Experiment tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history, an event now enshrined in folklore. Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946 shook America almost as profoundly as the Supreme Court's decision upholding desegregation in public schools a few years later. But this book doesn't end with Robinson: Baseball's Great Experiment follows the entire saga of baseball integration through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox--the last all-white Major League team--brought up the black infielder "Pumpsie" Green from the minors. As Tygiel makes clear, the integration of baseball transformed not only American athletics, but American society as well. Two characters tower above all others: Robinson the gifted athlete, and Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tygiel goes behind the scenes to recount Rickey's meticulous planning--his motives, his search for the right player, even his handling of sportscasters. Against the backdrop of a postwar America unprepared for the Civil Rights struggle, the story proceeds from Robinson's chilly reception among teammates and opponents alike, through his daily ordeal of taunts and death threats both on and off the field, to his triumph as rookie-of-the-year, when he led the Dodgers to the 1947 World Series, and ultimate recognition as one of the greatest players of all time. Robinson, however, was only the first of many blacks to play in the Majors, and Baseball's Great Experiment traces the complete, painfully slow process of desegregation, in the process telling the often neglected stories of men like Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and many other pioneers. Tygiel also offers a unique look at integration in the minor leagues, and the role that the lifting of the color barrier played in the battle against Jim Crow in the South. Based on interviews with dozens of players and baseball executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and the personal papers of those who were there, this is the moving story of true courage--an unforgettable re-creation of a bygone era in America.…
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- Title
- Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
- Author
- Of History Jules Tygiel
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195078268
- ISBN 13
- 9780195078268
Baseball's Great Experiment tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history, an event now enshrined in folklore. Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946 shook America almost as profoundly as the Supreme Court's decision upholding desegregation in public schools a few years later. But this book doesn't end with Robinson:Baseball's Great Experiment follows the entire saga of baseball integration through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox--the last all-white Major League team--brought up the black infielder "Pumpsie" Green from the minors. As Tygiel makes clear, the integration of baseball transformed not only American athletics, but American society as well.
Two characters tower above all others: Robinson the gifted athlete, and Branch Rickey, then president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tygiel goes behind the scenes to recount Rickey's meticulous planning--his motives, his search for the right player, even his handling of sportscasters. Against the backdrop of a postwar America unprepared for the Civil Rights struggle, the story proceeds from Robinson's chilly reception among teammates and opponents alike, through his daily ordeal of taunts and death threats both on and off the field, to his triumph as rookie-of-the-year, when he led the Dodgers to the 1947 World Series, and ultimate recognition as one of the greatest players of all time.
Robinson, however, was only the first of many blacks to play in the Majors, and Baseball's Great Experiment traces the complete, painfully slow process of desegregation, in the process telling the often neglected stories of men like Larry Doby, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and many other pioneers. Tygiel also offers a unique look at integration in the minor leagues, and the role that the lifting of the color barrier played in the battle against Jim Crow in the South.
Based on interviews with dozens of players and baseball executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and the personal papers of those who were there, this is the moving story of true courage--an unforgettable re-creation of a bygone era in America.
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About the Author
About the Author:
Jules Tygiel, a native of Brooklyn, is Professor of History at San Francisco State University and founder of the Pacific Ghost League. He is the author ofThe Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties.
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