[PDF.28ky] Press Box Red: The Story Of Lester Rodney,

Press Box Red: The Story Of Lester Rodney,

[PDF.ny51] Press Box Red: The Story Of Lester Rodney,

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 | #1692739 in Books |  Temple Univ Pr |  2003-08-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.70 x6.00l,.79 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Death of Jim Crow in Baseball|By Manray9|Irwin Silber’s “Press Box Red” is a lively look at the substantial roles played by Lester Rodney and The Daily Worker in the drive to desegregate organized baseball. Silber goes far in exploding the myth that it was Branch Rickey and his Methodist conscience who singlehandedly undid the unwritten ban on African Amer| |"Author Irwin Silber devotes half the book to situating Rodney's efforts within the larger scene and lets his subject talk for the rest. The result is a pleasure to read."-Z Magazine Online "[Rodney and Silber] dispense wisdom coupled with wit, salient informa

Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the Communist Daily Worker, launched the campaign that proved decisive in eventually breaking baseball's color line. But in the hostile anti-Communist climate of those years and for many years after, Rodney's story remained largely unknown. It therefore came as a surprise to many when Arnold Rampersad, in his authoritative 1997...

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