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Opening Day

Author: Jonathan Eig

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9780743294614

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 336

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A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season in which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier is a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates that covers such topics as his relationship with fellow players, the St. Louis Cardinals' proposed boycott of the Dodgers, and Robinson's association with segregated hotel roommate and sportswriter Wendell Smith. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Language: en
Pages: 336

Opening Day

Authors: Jonathan Eig

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-01 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Language: en
Pages: 159

Opening Day at Great American Ball Park

Authors: Dann Stupp

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01 - Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC

The beginning of a new age of Cincinnati Reds baseball is detailed in full-color splendor through this remarkable new book. Opening Day at Great American Ball Park follows all of the activities of the inaugural Opening Day at Cincinnati's new home for baseball, as the Reds battled the Pittsburgh Pirates

Language: en
Pages: 178

Opening Day

Authors: Jonathan Knight

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Kent State University Press

Opening Day is sportswriter Jonathan Knight's inning-by-inning look at the opening game at Jacobs Field on April 4, 1994. New home to the Cleveland Indians, The Jake was for fans symbolic of the team's turnaround. For the regional community this new ballpark marked the beginning of Cleveland's long awaited renaissance.

Language: en
Pages: 320

Opening Day

Authors: Joe Perrone

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: Joe Perrone Jr.

Young girls are coming through a pastoral Upstate New York fishing village...but, they aren't all coming out--alive!Following a close brush with death as an NYPD homicide detective, Matt Davis has taken early retirement, and accepted a position as Chief of Police in Roscoe. While out trout fishing on his favorite

Language: en
Pages: 304

Opening Day

Authors: Ric Davies

Categories: Fiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07 - Publisher: FriesenPress

This book is not only about baseball, but you will enjoy the drama, romance, sights, sounds and all things associated with the love of the game. The book will make you long for the days when baseball was America's game and kids played all day long on a sandlot. It