Not the Triumph But the Struggle: 1968 Olympics and the ...
 It changed the way I watch TV!: I learned so much from this book. I thought that it might be too hard to read, but it was worth it: I will never watch sports -- especially the Olympics -- the same way again. There's too much to list contained here: the [... more]
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Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League ...
Terrific Book!: The author does a great job of capturing both sides of the integration battlefields (ballparks) of the South. He effectively uses narratives of former players, both the famous (Felipe Alou, Billy Williams, etc.)and the not so famous (Joe [... more]
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Jesse Owens: AN AMERICAN LIFE
From Amazon.com: In 1936, Jesse Owens became the man who showed up Hitler and his ideas of racial superiority at the 1936 "Nazi Olympics" in Berlin. Back home in the US, he faced all the frustrations of a talented black man whose name alone was [... more]
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
Don't Miss This LIttle Gem!: This little book--small in dimensions and hardly over 100 pages in length--should be on everyone's bookshelf. Whether you remember watching Jackie Robinson play (as I do), or whether he's just a name from the distant past; [... more]
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Jackie Robinson: A Biography
From Amazon.com: In baseball and beyond, 1997 has been the year of Jackie Robinson, the 50th anniversary of his obliteration of the game's color line, and a time to reflect on a marvelous man whose heroism and decency cut far beyond the foul lines. [... more]
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I Never Had It Made: The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson
A man who lived A dream...or did he?: When I think about someone like Jackie Robinson, I think of someone who had an easy life of playing baseball and making lots of money. He was first the first African-American to play in the professional Major League [... more]
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Basketball Game ...
Why the dunk was outlawed: This is the best book available on the monumental historic 1966 NCAA men's basketball championship of Texas Western, the first team to start 5 blacks in the Final Four. It is very well researched, with an extensive bibliography. [... more]
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October 1964
From Amazon.com: Heroes have a habit of growing larger over time, as do the arenas in which they excelled. The 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals was coated in myth from the get-go. The Yankees represented the establishment: white, [... more]
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