Rickey and Robinson
The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
Published on 1. April 2015
264 pages
978-1-63076-003-8 (ISBN)
Description
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham
United States
Illustrations
14 BW Photos
File size
4,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-63076-003-8 (9781630760038)
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06/2015
Taylor Trade Publishing
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Persons
Harvey Frommer is a noted sports author and oral historian. He has written more than forty-two sports books including Remembering Yankee Stadium, Remembering Fenway Park, and was coauthor of the autobiographies of Red Holzman, Nolan Ryan, and Tony Dorsett. Cited in the Congressional Record and by the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist, Dr. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with his wife, Myrna.
