| Author | Lamb, Chris, 1958-
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| Title | Blackout : the untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training / Chris Lamb.
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| Published | Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
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| Description | xii, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-8032-2956-9 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 978-0-8032-2956-3 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0-8032-0431-0 (electronic) |
| ISBN | 978-0-8032-0431-7 (electronic) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-216) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: 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.
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| Subjects | Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Discrimination in sports -- United States.
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.
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| LC Card Number | 2004-614 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: GV 865 R662 L21
mq234648: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 141362] |
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