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Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary) Paperback - 2008

by Jules Tygiel

"Baseball's Great Experiment" tells the story of one of the most explosive and far-reaching episodes in American sports history--Jackie Robinson's breaking of baseball's color barrier in 1946--and traces the entire, painfully slow process of desegregation.


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In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both
on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neglected stories of other African-American players--such as Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron--who helped transform our national pastime into an integrated game. Drawing on dozens of interviews with players and front office
executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and personal papers, Tygiel provides the most telling and insightful account of Jackie Robinson's influence on American baseball and society. The anniversary issue features a new foreword by the author.

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Opening Day of the baseball season was always a festive occasion in Jersey City on the banks of the Passaic River.

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  • Title Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy (Anniversary)
  • Author Jules Tygiel
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 25th anniversary
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
  • Date 2008-02-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195339284 / 0195339282
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.53 x 0.83 in (20.07 x 14.05 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, Baseball - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008273059
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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 of The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties.
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