Jackie Robinson

Race, Sports and the American Dream
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7656-0318-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

With these words, President Clinton contributed to Long Island University's three-day celebration of that momentous event in American history when Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball. This new book includes presentations from that celebration, especially chosen for their fresh perspectives and illuminating insights.
A heady mix of journalism, scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that far transcends the retelling of just another sports story. Readers get a true sense of the social conditions prior to Robinson's arrival in the major leagues and the ripple effect his breakthrough had on the nation. Anecdotes enliven the story and offer more than the usual "larger than life" portrait of Robinson.
A melange of contributors from the sports world, academia, and journalism, some of Robinson's contemporaries, Dodger fans, and historians of the era, all sharing a passion for baseball, reflect on issues of sports, race, and the dramatic transformation of the American social and political scene in the last fifty years. In addition to the editors, the list of authors includes Peter Golenbock, one of America's preeminent sports biographers and author of Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947-1957, Tom Hawkins, the first African-American to star in basketball at Notre Dame and currently Vice-President for Communications of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bill Mardo a former writer for the New York Daily Worker, Roger Rosenblatt, teacher at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University, and author of numerous articles, plays, and books, Peter Williams, author of a study of sports myth, The Sports Immortals, and Samuel Regalado, author of Viva Baseball!: LatinMajor Leaguers and Their Special Hunger.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dorinson, Joseph

Warmund, Joram

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Badminton Baseball

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson, Introduction Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. In the Eye of the Stonn: 1947 in World Perspective 2. Men of Conscience 3. Moses Fleetwood Walker: Jackie Robinson's Accidental Predecessor 4. Monte Irvin: Up from Sharecropping Part II. Fans' Remembrances 5. It Happened in Brooklyn: Reminiscences of a Fan 6. The Interborough Iliad 7. Father and Son at Ebbets Field 8. A Ten-Year-Old Dodger Fan Welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Ivan W. Hametz 6 9. Mah Nishtanah Part III. The Radical Press/Agenda 10. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily Worker and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947 II. White Dodgers, Black Dodgers 12. Robinson-Robeson Part IV. On the [Level?] Playing Field 13. Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson: Race, Identity, and Ethnic Power 14. Burt Shotton: The Crucible of 1947 IS. Jackie Robinson on Opening Day, 1947-1956 Part V. Measuring the Impact on Baseball 16. Jackie Robinson and the Third Age of Modern Baseball 17. Jackie Robinson and the Emancipation of Latin American Baseball Players 18. The Two Titans and the Mystery Man: Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers Partners, 1944-1950 Part VI. Measuring the Impact on Society 19. Robinson in 1947: Measuring an Uncertain Impact 20. Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night: Race, the Baseball Establishment, and the Retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson 21. Kareem's Omission? Jackie Robinson, Black Profile in Courage 22. Should We Rely on the Marketplace to End Discrimination? What the Integration of Baseball Tells Us Part VII. Thank You, Jackie Robinson 23. Greetings 24. Keynote Address

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Dorinson, educated at Columbia University, is a professor in the History Department (which he chaired, 198$-1997) at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University (LID). Recipient of the first David E. Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching (1988), Dorinson has published numerous articles featuring his beloved borough. Joram Warmund is a professor in the history department of the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. He earned a B.A. from Queens College, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from New York University. He has worked at Long Island University since 1963, first teaching history and later serving in several key administrative posts. In 1994, he returned to the history department after ten years as provost of the Rockland Campus of LIU. Warmund is a two-time recipient of the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and was also awarded the D.A.A.D. (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). His fields of specialty include modem German and diplomatic histories. His service as co-director of the Jackie Robinson Conference and co-editor of this book has paralleled a growing interest in comparative United States German histories and in post-World War II cultures.