Jackie Robinson : race, sports, and the American dream / edited by Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund.

Other author Dorinson, Joseph, 1936-
Other author Warmund, Joram, 1939-
Format Book
Publication InfoArmonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1998.
Descriptionxxii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Jackie, do they know? An ode to Jackie Robinson / Tom (Tommy) Hawkins -- Introduction / Joseph Dorinson, Joram Warmund -- In the eye of the storm : 1947 in world perspective / Joram Warmund -- Men of conscience / Peter Golenbock -- Moses Fleetwood Walker : Jackie Robinson's accidental predecessor / Sidney Gendin -- Monte Irvin : up from sharecropping / Jack B. Moore -- It happened in Brooklyn : reminiscences of a fan / Robert Gruber -- The interborough iliad / Peter Williams --
Contents Father and son at Ebbets Field / Peter Levine -- A ten-year-old Dodger fan welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn / Ivan W. Hametz -- Mah nishtanah / Henry Foner -- Baseball on the radical agenda : the Daily worker and Sunday worker journalistic campaign to desegregate Major League baseball, 1933-1947 / Kelly E. Rusinack -- White Dodgers, Black Dodgers / Lester Rodney -- Robinson--Robeson / Bill Mardo -- Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson : race, identity, and ethnic power / Joseph Dorinson --
Contents Burt Shotton : the crucible of 1947 / Robert A. Moss -- Jackie Robinson on opening day, 1947-1956 / Lyle Spatz -- Jackie Robinson and the third age of modern baseball / David Shiner -- Jackie Robinson and the emancipation of Latin American baseball players / Samuel O. Regalado -- The two titans and the mystery man : Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers partners, 1944-1950 / Lee Lowenfish -- Robinson in 1947 : measuring an uncertain impact / Henry D. Fetter --
Contents "Do not go gently into that good night" : race, the baseball establishment, and the retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson / Ron Briley -- Kareem's omission? Jackie Robinson, Black profile in courage / Patrick Henry -- Should we rely on the marketplace to end discrimination? What the integration of baseball tells us / Robert Cherry -- Greetings / Carl Erskine -- Keynote address / Roger Rosenblatt.
Local noteLittle-308775--305131013191S
Local noteLittle-320269--305131020484V
General noteSelected papers from a conference held Apr. 3-5, 1997, on the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98038327
ISBN0765603179 (hc. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GV865.R6 A34 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold