Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season
(2007)
By:
Eig, Jonathan
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ROBINSON,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2007]
©2007
©2007
DESCRIPTION
x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780743294607, 0743294602
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Jack Roosevelt Robinson -- Some good colored players -- The uprising -- Opening day -- Up in Harlem -- Praying for base hits -- Cardinal sins -- The great road trip -- Tearing up the pea patch -- Pee-wee's embrace -- The glorious crusade -- A smile of almost painful joy -- Up and down Macdonough street -- A real gone guy -- A good thing for everybody -- The poison pen -- The unbeatable yanks -- Dixie Walker's dilemma -- The footsteps of enos 'country' slaughter -- Shadow dancing -- "We aren't afraid" -- "And the world series is over!"