| Author | Tygiel, Jules.
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| Title | Baseball's great experiment : Jackie Robinson and his legacy / Jules Tygiel.
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| Edition | Expanded ed. |
| Published | New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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| Description | xii, 413 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-19-510619-9 (paper : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-510619-0 (paper : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0-19-510620-2 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-510620-6 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-398) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The crucible of white hot competition -- Twilight ere the noon -- The conspiracy of silence -- Oh, they were a pair! -- It won't work out! -- If they come here, they can't play -- Il a gagné ses épaulettes -- They don't want me? -- The most costly trial ever given a player -- A lone Negro in the game -- Remember, all our boys can't be a Robinson -- A Paul Bunyan in technicolor -- The only thing I wanted to do was hit the Major Leagues -- The unwritten law of the South -- With all deliberate speed -- They've just got to forget they're Black -- Baseball has done it.
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| Subjects | Baseball -- United States -- History.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
United States -- Race relations.
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| LC Card Number | 96-38551 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: GV 865 R662 T97 1997
mq237106: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 143121] |
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