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First published in 1998,
Jackie Robinson includes presentations from Long Island University's three-day celebration, especially chosen for their fresh perspectives and illuminating insights. A mix of journalism, scholarship, and memory offers a presentation that transcends the retelling of just another sports story.
List of contents
Foreword Senator Charles E. Schumer Preface Acknowledgments Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson Tom (Tommy) Hawkins Introduction
Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. In the Eye of the Storm: 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 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
11. 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
15. 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
About the Contributors Index
About the author
Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund
