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    Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—And America

    By Steve Jacobson

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    The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 to 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents. Stories include incidents of white players who gave up promising careers in baseball because they wouldn’t play with a black teammate, the Georgia law that forbade a black player from dressing in the same clubhouse as the white players, the quotas for the number of blacks on a team, and how salary negotiations without agents or free agency were akin to a plantation system for both black and white players. The 20 players profiled include Ernie Banks, Alvin Jackson, Charlie Murray, Chuck Harmon, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and Bob Watson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicago Review Press
    Release dateJan 1, 2009
    ISBN9781569763889
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    • 4/5
      While it’s common knowledge that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and thereby integrated the major leagues, far less attention is given to the struggles of the other black ballplayers who followed him into the major and minor leagues. Steve Jacobson’s Carrying Jackie’s Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball — and America chronicles the plight of nineteen black players who entered baseball between 1947 and 1968, enduring harassment, discrimination, and the persistent Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. The players share their similar stories of racism, and it remains infuriating to realize how long such mistreatment continued after Robinson’s debut. The author shines a light on a shameful period of American history, and astutely notes that baseball eventually helped clear the way towards civil rights reforms and improved racial equality. But Jacobson’s writing style is often a challenge with his penchant for confusing syntax - quite surprising for a renown sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize nominee.