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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