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Title	:	Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy,
Author	:	Jules Tygiel
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	25th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 124 pages
Published	:	(first published July 28th 1983)
Categories	:	Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction. History. Biography. North American Hi.... American History

Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy, Paperback | Pages: 124 pages

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In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Jules Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neglected stories of other African-American players—such as Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron—who helped transform our national pastime into an integrated game. Drawing on dozens of interviews with players and front office executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and personal papers, Tygiel provides the most telling and insightful account of Jackie Robinson's influence on American baseball and society. The anniversary issue features a new foreword by the author. 4

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Original Title:	Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Edition Language:	English
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I'm a big baseball fan and have a pretty good knowledge of baseball history, especially that part that I have lived through. Jackie Robinson played before I was born and up to the time I was about 5 years old. So I knew something about Robinson and his story. Nevertheless, there was much about him and the history of baseball integration that I did not know before I read this book. And this actually forms the basis of my only criticism of this book - it was so full of information that it read

I was very slow reading this (my opening line to almost all my nonfiction reads). That doesn't reflect on the writing or the material, though. This was a fascinating exploration of the desegregation of baseball written in the 1980s when most of the people involved were still alive and available to talk about it. I enjoyed it a lot and would recommend it to anyone interested in baseball or in the post-war period in America, as this is a somewhat different angle on that time. The simple fact that

it was refreshing to read that Jackie had such a temper!

1983 CASEY Award nominee1984 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award Honorable Mention#50 Sports Illustrated Top 100 Sports Books of All Time (2002)#2, Wall Street Journal 5 Best Baseball Books (2010)Briefly: An important history textThere may be no more cherished baseball legend than the story of Jackie Robinson and his breaking of baseballs color barrier. That legend is center stage in Baseballs Great Experiment, which tells this historically important story that transcends baseball history. The

Great perspective on the integration of baseball and what it did for the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Enjoyed the personal stories that supported the facts and name listing. I'm sure if I was a bigger baseball fan some of the more obscure names might have made more of an impact on me.

Love Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey and found this to be a good and insightful book.Las Vegas, Nevada. Recommended by Spencer Hansen

Fantastic, thorough history not only of Jackie but also of the African-American experience in pro baseball in the years before and after that legendary 1947 season. I always regretted not taking a class from Mr. Tygiel when he taught at San Francisco State, but especially after finally reading this, and learning of his death last year.