tailieunhanh - The American Game BASEBALL AND ETHNICITY

On 15 April 1997, at Shea Stadium in New York, Major League Baseball honored the great Jackie Robinson by celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his historic entry into the big leagues. At that time, I said, "The day Jackie Robinson stepped on a major league field will forever be remembered as baseball's proudest moment." Jackie's achievement, so ably assisted by Branch Rickey, was a seminal event not only for baseball but also for the entire country. For the first time, baseball, long hailed as our national pastime, truly became the game that represented all of America | THE_________ AMERICAN GAME Baseball and Ethnicity Foreword by Allan H. Bud Selig Writing LBaséball THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES Other Books in the Writing Baseball Series Man on Spikes Eliot Asinof Foreword by Marvin Miller Off-Season Eliot Asinof The Chicago Cubs Warren Brown Foreword by Jerome Holtzman My Baseball Diary James T Farrell Foreword by Joseph Durso The Brooklyn Dodgers An Informal History Frank Graham Foreword by Jack Lang The New York Giants An Informal History of a Great Baseball Club Frank Graham Foreword by Ray Robinson The New York Yankees An Informal History Frank Graham Foreword by Leonard Koppett The Best Seat in Baseball But You Have to Stand The Game as Umpires See It Lee Gutkind Foreword by Eric Rolfe Greenberg Line Drives 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems Edited by Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles Foreword by Elinor Nauen Full Count Inside Cuban Baseball Milton Foreword by Larry Dierker Owning a Piece of the Minors Jerry Klinkowitz Foreword by Mike Veeck The St Louis Cardinals The Story of a Great Baseball Club Frederick G. Lieb Foreword by Bob Broeg The National Game Alfred H. Spink Foreword by Steven R .