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Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier

Author Harvey Frommer
Publisher Taylor Trade Publishing
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ISBN / ASIN1630760021
ISBN-139781630760021
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Sales Rank1,317,834
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson by describing how they worked together to shatter baseball's color line. Rickey and Robinson is a dual biography tracing the convergence of the lives of two of baseball's most influential individuals in a marker moment in sports and cultural history.