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

by Harvey Frommer sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium, Monte Irvin (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630760021
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	681,636
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
1	The Meeting	1
2	Pasadena: The Making of an All-American	17
3	Ohio: Pioneer Stock	35
4	St. Louis	47
5	Building Days in Brooklyn	80
6	The Color Bar Drops	96
7	The Signing	108
8	Number 42	131
9	The Mahatma in Charge	150
10	Changing Roles	160
11	Speaking Out	175
12	Winding Down	190
13	The Final Years	205
	Afterword	231
	Appendix	233
	Box Score of Jackie Robinson's First Game
	Jackie Robinson's Playing Record
	Branch Rickey's Playing Record
	Branch Rickey's Managing Record
	Index	235

Editorial Reviews

Interesting and exciting book.

Jersey Journal

A celebration, a nostalgic account.

EBONY

One of the best. .. brutally honest with no punches pulled.

Amsterdam News

Thorough research, a vivid account.

Chicago Tribune

Just a terrific book. It fills in so many of the blanks about the story of Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. It's like a history lesson. And the intro by Monte Irvin puts it over the top.. .. Highly recommended.

Billy Sample

Mr. Harvey Frommer, a friend of the NLBPA, has published another great book. . .

Negro League Baseball Players Association

A vivid account of the two as genuine American heroes.

The Instrumentalist

Frommer's analysis of Rickey's motives sets this book apart.. .. [Rickey and Robinson] raises all the right questions in interesting ways.

Booklist

I've read more than a dozen books on the Rickey/Robinson tandem and I must say that Frommer's is the best structured. He brings Robinson's persona alive, proving why he was the first black man selected to break the racial barrier.

Black Issues Book Review - Art Rust Jr.

Frommer's analysis of Rickey's motives sets this book apart. . . . [Rickey and Robinson] raises all the right questions in interesting ways.

Booklist

A vivid account of the two as genuine American heroes.

Washington Post

Thorough research, a vivid account.

Chicago Tribune

Mr. Harvey Frommer, a friend of the NLBPA, has published another great book. . .

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