Go
 

  Get this audio book:

( Amazon.com )        # of Discs: 10




Learn More About
Find More Titles by
This Author: Jonathan Eig
This Narrator: Richard Allen
This Publisher: Tantor Audio

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig

Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

by Jonathan Eig


Title Details

Author
Narrator
Publisher
 
Unabridged Edition
Running Time
12 Hrs.

Description

April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseball in the twentieth century. In Opening Day, Jonathan Eig tells the true story behind the national pastime's most sacred myth. Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil rights era.

People Who Liked Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season Also Liked These Titles:
  Life
by Keith Richards