ESPN After Jackie:Pride, Prejudice
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"After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes -- An Oral History" is a book written to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the breaking of baseball's color barrier -- an exploration of Jackie Robinson's impact and legacy by the people whose lives were transformed by his courage. Hardcover: 304 pages. When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he forever changed the game of baseball -- and America itself. In "After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes -- An Oral History," author Cal Fussman traces Robinson's enormous legacy in sports, politics and the civil rights movement through the men (and women) who came after him. With moving and intimate interviews of more than one hundred former major league players of African-American descent, as well as such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali and Walter Cronkite, among others, this book recalls the day one man altered history for so many, and the history that followed. Cal Fussman is a contributing editor for ESPN The Magazine and Esquire, where he has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Robert DeNiro, George Steinbrenner, Rudy Guilianni and LeBron James, among many others. A graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School, he lives with his family in Chapel Hill, NC.
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Product #: 560182
Price: $24.95
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