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“Baseball as History: Jackie
Robinson and The Civil Rights Struggle”
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Jules Tygiel
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
Books
- I Never Had It Made
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
- Jackie Robinson: An Intimate
Portrait
By Rachel Robinson, with Lee Daniels,
Harry N. Abrams, 1996
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- The Jackie Robinson Reader:
Perspectives on an American Hero
by Roger Kahn (Editor), Jules
Tygiel (Editor)
- Press Box Red: The Story
of Lester Rodney, the Communist
Who Helped Break the Color Line
in American Sports by Irwin
Silber
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