1st Edition

Jackie Robinson Race, Sports and the American Dream

296 Pages

by Routledge

296 Pages

by Routledge

296 Pages

by Routledge

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There are defining moments in the life of a nation when a single individual can shape events for generations to come. For America, the spring of 1947 was such a moment, and Jackie Robinson was the man who made the difference." With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first... Read more

Foreword Senator Charles E. Schumer Preface Acknowledgments Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson Tom (Tommy) Hawkins Introduction Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. In the Eye of the Storm: 1947 in World Perspective Joram Warmund 2. Men of Conscience Peter Golenbock 3. Moses Fleetwood Walker: Jackie Robinson's Accidental Predecessor Sidney Gendin 4. Monte Irvin: Up from Sharecropping Jack B. Moore Part II. Fans' Remembrances 5. It Happened in Brooklyn: Reminiscences of a Fan Robert Gruber 6. The Interborough Iliad Peter Williams 7. Father and Son at Ebbets Field Peter Levine 8. A Ten-Year-Old Dodger Fan Welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Ivan W. Hametz 9. Mah Nishtanah Henry Foner Part III. The Radical Press/ Agenda 10. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily Worker and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947 Kelly E. Rusinack 11. White Dodgers, Black Dodgers Lester Rodney 12. Robinson-Robeson Bill Mardo Part IV. On the [Level?] Playing Field 13. Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson: Race, Identity, and Ethnic Power Joseph Dorinson 14. Burt Shotton: The Crucible of 1947 Robert A. Moss 15. Jackie Robinson on Opening Day, 1947-1956 Lyle Spatz Part V. Measuring the Impact on Baseball 16. Jackie Robinson and the Third Age of Modern Baseball David Shiner 17. Jackie Robinson and the Emancipation of Latin American Baseball Players Samuel 0. Regalado 18. The Two Titans and the Mystery Man: Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers Partners, 1944-1950 Lee Lowenfzsh Part VI. Measuring the Impact on Society 19. Robinson in 1947: Measuring an Uncertain Impact Henry D. Fetter 20. "Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night": Race, the Baseball Establishment, and the Retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson Ron Briley 21. Kareem's Omission? Jackie Robinson, Black Profile in Courage Patrick Henry 22. Should We Rely on the Marketplace to End Discrimination? What the Integration of Baseball Tells Us Robert Cherry Part VII. Thank You, Jackie Robinson 23. Greetings Carl Erskine 24. Keynote Address Roger Rosenblatt About the Contributors Index