With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island
University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in
American history when Robinson became the first African American to
play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations
from that celebration, especially chosen for their fresh
perspectives and illuminating insights. A heady mix of journalism,
scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that far transcends
the retelling of just another sports story. Readers get a true
sense of the social conditions prior to Robinson's arrival in the
major leagues and the ripple effect his breakthrough had on the
nation. Anecdotes enliven the story and offer more than the usual
"larger than life" portrait of Robinson. A melange of contributors
from the sports world, academia, and journalism, some of Robinson's
contemporaries, Dodger fans, and historians of the era, all sharing
a passion for baseball, reflect on issues of sports, race, and the
dramatic transformation of the American social and political scene
in the last fifty years. In addition to the editors, the list of
authors includes Peter Golenbock, one of America's preeminent
sports biographers and author of Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers,
1947-1957, Tom Hawkins, the first African-American to star in
basketball at Notre Dame and currently Vice-President for
Communications of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bill Mardo a former
writer for the New York Daily Worker, Roger Rosenblatt, teacher at
the Southampton Campus of Long Island University, and author of
numerous articles, plays, and books, Peter Williams, author of a
study of sports myth, The Sports Immortals, and Samuel Regalado,
author of Viva Baseball!: LatinMajor Leaguers and Their Special
Hunger.
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