This anthology discusses Jackie Robinson's early years, his life and baseball glory as a Brooklyn Dodger, his relationship with the fans, and his peers and successors. The contributors to this work include, Paul Robeson Jr, Carl Erskine, Roger Rosenblatt, Jules Tygiel and Lester Rodney.
This anthology discusses Jackie Robinson's early years, his life and baseball glory as a Brooklyn Dodger, his relationship with the fans, and his peers and successors. The contributors to this work include, Paul Robeson Jr, Carl Erskine, Roger Rosenblatt, Jules Tygiel and Lester Rodney.
Joseph Dorinson, educated at Columbia University, is a professor in the History Department (which he chaired, 198$-1997) at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University (LID). Recipient of the first David E. Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching (1988), Dorinson has published numerous articles featuring his beloved borough. Joram Warmund is a professor in the history department of the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. He earned a B.A. from Queens College, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from New York University. He has worked at Long Island University since 1963, first teaching history and later serving in several key administrative posts. In 1994, he returned to the history department after ten years as provost of the Rockland Campus of LIU. Warmund is a two-time recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and was also awarded the D.A.A.D. (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). His fields of specialty include modem German and diplomatic histories. His service as co-director of the Jackie Robinson Conference and co-editor of this book has paralleled a growing interest in comparative United States German histories and in post-World War II cultures.
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Preface, Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson, Introduction Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. In the Eye of the Stonn: 1947 in World Perspective 2. Men of Conscience 3. Moses Fleetwood Walker: Jackie Robinson's Accidental Predecessor 4. Monte Irvin: Up from Sharecropping Part II. Fans' Remembrances 5. It Happened in Brooklyn: Reminiscences of a Fan 6. The Interborough Iliad 7. Father and Son at Ebbets Field 8. A Ten-Year-Old Dodger Fan Welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Ivan W. Hametz 6 9. Mah Nishtanah Part III. The Radical Press/Agenda 10. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily Worker and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947 II. White Dodgers, Black Dodgers 12. Robinson-Robeson Part IV. On the [Level?] Playing Field 13. Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson: Race, Identity, and Ethnic Power 14. Burt Shotton: The Crucible of 1947 IS. Jackie Robinson on Opening Day, 1947-1956 Part V. Measuring the Impact on Baseball 16. Jackie Robinson and the Third Age of Modern Baseball 17. Jackie Robinson and the Emancipation of Latin American Baseball Players 18. The Two Titans and the Mystery Man: Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers Partners, 1944-1950 Part VI. Measuring the Impact on Society 19. Robinson in 1947: Measuring an Uncertain Impact 20. Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night: Race, the Baseball Establishment, and the Retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson 21. Kareem's Omission? Jackie Robinson, Black Profile in Courage 22. Should We Rely on the Marketplace to End Discrimination? What the Integration of Baseball Tells Us Part VII. Thank You, Jackie Robinson 23. Greetings 24. Keynote Address
Preface, Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson, Introduction Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. In the Eye of the Stonn: 1947 in World Perspective 2. Men of Conscience 3. Moses Fleetwood Walker: Jackie Robinson's Accidental Predecessor 4. Monte Irvin: Up from Sharecropping Part II. Fans' Remembrances 5. It Happened in Brooklyn: Reminiscences of a Fan 6. The Interborough Iliad 7. Father and Son at Ebbets Field 8. A Ten-Year-Old Dodger Fan Welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Ivan W. Hametz 6 9. Mah Nishtanah Part III. The Radical Press/Agenda 10. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily Worker and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947 II. White Dodgers, Black Dodgers 12. Robinson-Robeson Part IV. On the [Level?] Playing Field 13. Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson: Race, Identity, and Ethnic Power 14. Burt Shotton: The Crucible of 1947 IS. Jackie Robinson on Opening Day, 1947-1956 Part V. Measuring the Impact on Baseball 16. Jackie Robinson and the Third Age of Modern Baseball 17. Jackie Robinson and the Emancipation of Latin American Baseball Players 18. The Two Titans and the Mystery Man: Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers Partners, 1944-1950 Part VI. Measuring the Impact on Society 19. Robinson in 1947: Measuring an Uncertain Impact 20. Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night: Race, the Baseball Establishment, and the Retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson 21. Kareem's Omission? Jackie Robinson, Black Profile in Courage 22. Should We Rely on the Marketplace to End Discrimination? What the Integration of Baseball Tells Us Part VII. Thank You, Jackie Robinson 23. Greetings 24. Keynote Address
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