Carrying Jackie's Torch
- ISBN-10
- 1556527918
- ISBN-13
- 9781556527913
- Category
- African American baseball players
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press
- Author
- Steve Jacobson
Description
Profiles twenty African American baseball players who followed Jackie Robinson, describing the types of discrimination they faced, from the imposition of quotas, to white players refusing to play with them, to salary inequalities.
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- 2007-01-01
- 264 pages
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