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Opening Day

Opening Day

by Jonathan Eig

Baseball playersAfrican American baseball playersBaseballDiscrimination in sportsBiography
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season during which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier offers a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates.

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Baseball playersAfrican American baseball playersBaseballDiscrimination in sportsBiographyHistory

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Setting

United States

About the author

Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig

1964

Ken Burns calls Jonathan Eig a "master storyteller." Eig is the author of five books, three of them New York Times best sellers. He was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Eig is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he remains a contributing writer. Eig has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post, among others. Prior to The Wall Street Journal, he worked as a feature writer for Chicago magazine and as a news reporter for The Dallas Morning News and The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Eig's books have been published in 13 languages. His first book, Luckiest Man: The Life and Death…

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Jonathan Eig

Pages

336

Read time

≈ 8h

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11

Language

English

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

ISBN

9781416554103

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