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“Baseball as History: Jackie Robinson and The Civil Rights Struggle”
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Jules Tygiel link is a professor of history at San Francisco State University where he specializes in U.S. sports history (in particular baseball and Jackie Robinson) as well US and California history. He has written numerous books and articles including: Past Time: Baseball As History (New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2000), Baseball's Great Experiment (named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All-Time by Sports llustrated, 2003) and "Ronald Reagan and the Triumph of Conservatism" in Next Stop, Vietnam (University of California Press, forthcoming, 2004)
Web Links
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The Negro Leagues: http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/sport/tygiel.html
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Beyond the Playing Field: Jackie Robinson, Civil Rights Advocate.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
jackie_robinson/jackie_robinson.html
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By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson : .
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
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The Best Red Sportswriter:
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1648_reg.html
Read the Foreword by J. Tygiel and an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book (pdf).
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Book review of Baseball's Great Experiment by Jules Tygiel
http://www.dickiethon.com/~bookreviews/ baseball/
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[email protected]: Jackie Robinson: .
http://www.afro.com/history/Robinson/intro.html
Books
- I Never Had It Made more information from amazon.com
By Jackie Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett, Ecco Press, 1997
- Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
By Jules Tygiel, Oxford University Press, 1993
more information from amazon.com
- Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait more information from amazon.com
By Rachel Robinson, with Lee Daniels, Harry N. Abrams, 1996
Interview with Jackie Robinson's daughter, Sharon Robinson, on her book Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America broadcast on NPR 4/15/04 )
- The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives on an American Hero
by Roger Kahn (Editor), Jules Tygiel (Editor)
more information from amazon.com
- Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber more information from amazon.com
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