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Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports
Press Box Red The Story of Lester Rodney the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports
Author: Irwin Silber, Lester Rodney
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, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781566399739
ISBN-10: 1566399734
Publication Date: 7/2003
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Temple University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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