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Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, Paperback - 2003
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- Title Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney,
- Author Irwin Silber
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Temple University Press
- Date August 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9781566399746 / 1566399742
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.93 x 5.99 x 0.66 in (22.68 x 15.21 x 1.68 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball - United States - History, Discrimination in sports - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003040182
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Choice, 02/01/2004, Page 1117
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2004, Page 1
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PRESS BOX RED: THE STORY OF LESTER RODNEY, THE COMMUNIST WHO HELPED BREAK THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICAN SPORTS
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Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. Trade paperback. Very good. [xx], 236p. 1st printing. Signed by author and Rodney on half title page. People's Weekly World book review, November 22-28, 2003, laid in. Biography recounting the Daily Worker sportswriter's career and campaign to end segregation in American sports. Lester Rodney, sports journalist for the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker, has often been overlooked when recounting the story of Jackie Robinson's signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team in 1945, thereby integrating the sport. However, Rodney had been working since 1936 to overturn the injustice of segregated ball teams. The timing was right when Rodney wrote a letter to the editor of the Daily Worker "pointing out some ways they could improve their sports stuff" because in the 1930s, the Communist Party aimed to appeal to the masses through popular culture, adding among other features two full pages of sports coverage. Rodney covered the sports as any sports…
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