Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier by Frommer, Harvey

Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781630760021)

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Format: Paperback
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Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier by Frommer, Harvey

Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier

$16.95
Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier by Frommer, Harvey

Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie's widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.

Author: Harvey Frommer
ISBN-10: 1630760021
ISBN-13: 9781630760021
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2015
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.70d
By Harvey Frommer
By Harvey Frommer
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Harvey Frommer is a noted sports author and oral historian. He has written more than forty-two sports books, including Remembering Yankee Stadium and Remembering Fenway Park, and was coauthor of the autobiographies of Red Holzman, Nolan Ryan, and Tony Dorsett. Cited in the Congressional Record and by the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist, Dr. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire, with his wife, Myrna.

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