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| Gênero/Forma: | Biographie Biography |
|---|---|
| Formato Físico Adicional: | Online version: Lamb, Chris, 1958- Blackout. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2004 (OCoLC)609645694 |
| Pessoa Denominada: | Jackie Robinson; Jackie Robinson |
| Tipo de Material: | Biografia, Recurso Internet |
| Tipo de Documento: | Livro, Recurso Internet |
| Todos os Autores / Contribuintes: |
Chris Lamb |
| ISBN: | 0803229569 9780803229563 0803204310 9780803204317 |
| Número OCLC: | 54079843 |
| Descrição: | xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Conteúdos: | Fried chicken and hard-boiled eggs -- Jim Crow baseball must end -- Rickey and Robinson challenge segregated baseball -- Robinson and Wright take their game to Sanford -- Robinson and Wright flee Sanford by sundown -- Robinson takes the field -- Cheap talk, Mexican millionaires, and Eddie Klep -- Lights out in Deland and locked gates in Jacksonville -- Integration stands its ground against southern intolerance -- Robinson wins the day during his first game in Montreal. |
| Responsabilidade: | Chris Lamb. |
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Resumo:
Chronicles Jackie Robinson's ordeal during spring training with the minor league Montreal Royals - how he struggled on the field and off. This work tells what happened during six weeks in segregated Florida - six weeks that would become a juncture for the national pastime and for an American society on the threshold of a civil rights revolution.
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""Blackout" is the most complete analysis of Robinson's first spring training available as Lamb has probed the press reports to new depths and in the process revealed another facet of the two America's divided along racial lines. "Blackout" is also a volume that is essential to any understanding of the events of sixty years ago in Florida and their significance for baseball, for Florida, and for America."--Richard Crepeau, "Sports Literature Association"--Richard Crepeau "Sports Literature Association " Ler mais...
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