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Carrying Jackie’s Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America

by Steve Jacobson [Reprinted from Carrying Jackie's Torch (Lawrence Hill Books) (MCT)]

[20.Apr.07] :. No matter how great their RBI or batting average, neither Jackie Robinson nor the other black players could escape the racism, insult or injustice of the times.

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