Old Leather

In Rickey Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate secondhand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including revelatory material hed buried in his notebooks in the 40s and 50s, back when sportswriters were still known to protect players and baseball executives. That starts first and foremost withan in-depth examination of the two men chiefly responsible for making integration happen Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson. Considering Robinsons exalted place in American culture as evidenced by the remarkable success of the recent biopic, the books eye-opening revelations are sure to generate controversy as well as conversation. No other sportswriter working today carries Kahns authority when writing about this period in baseball history, and the publication of this book, Kahns last, is a true literary event. In Rickey Robinson, Kahn separates fact from myth to present a truthful portrait of baseball and its participants at a critical juncture in American history-