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

by Tygiel, Jules

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"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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  • Title Baseball's Great Experiment : Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
  • Author Tygiel, Jules
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 25th anniversary
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
  • Date 2008-02-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4706695-6
  • 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

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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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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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