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Blackout: The Untold Story Of Jackie Robinson'S First Spring Training,Used
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In the spring of 1946, following the defeat of Hitlers Germany, America found itself still struggling with the subtler but no less insidious tyrannies of racism and segregation at home. In the midst of it all, Jackie Robinson, a full year away from breaking major league baseballs color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, was undergoing a harrowing dress rehearsal for integrationhis first spring training as a minor league prospect with the Montreal Royals, Brooklyns AAA team. In Blackout, Chris Lamb tells what happened during these six weeks in segregated Floridasix weeks that would become a critical juncture for the national pastime and for an American society on the threshold of a civil rights revolution.Blackout chronicles Robinsons tremendous ordeal during that crucial spring traininghow he struggled on the field and off. The restaurants and hotels that welcomed his white teammates were closed to him, and in one city after another he was prohibited from taking the field. Steeping his story in its complex cultural context, Lamb describes Robinsons determination and anxiety, the reaction of the black and white communities to his appearance, and the unique and influential role of the pressmainstream reporting, the alternative black weeklies, and the Communist Daily Workerin the integration of baseball. Told here in detail for the first time, this story brilliantly encapsulates the larger history of a man, a sport, and a nation on the verge of great and enduring change.Purchase the audio edition.
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