Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports
- ISBN-10
- 1566399742
- ISBN-13
- 9781566399746
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Temple University Press
- Author
- Irwin Silber
Description
Annotation Foreword Jules Tygiel Acknowledgments 1. The Daily Worker Starts a Sports Section 2. Growing Up in Brooklyn 3. A Communist in the Press Box? 4. "Jim Crow Must Go!" (Part 1): The Daily Worker's Campaign to Break the Color Line in Organized Baseball 5. "Jim Crow Must Go!" (Part 2): And the Walls Came (Slowly) Tumbling Down 6. The Impact of Baseball's Integration 7. The Ballplayers and the Communist 8. Boxing: The Brutal "Sport" and the Class Angle 9. Hoop Dreams#151and Scandals Postscript Bibliography Index.
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