A Fine Team Man
Jackie Robinson and the Lives He Touched
$42.36
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2022
Summary
Jackie Robinson famously said that a life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives. As we celebrate Robinson’s 100th birthday in January 2019, A Fine Team Man profiles not only Robinson, but nine other figures whose lives were altered by the “great experiment,” as the integration of baseball was called then. Profiled here are Rachel Robinson, the stoic and enduring wife; Branch Rickey, the tight-fisted but far-sighted general manager/owner of the Dodgers; baseball commissi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781493061914 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1493061917 |
| Author: | Joe Cox |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Imprint: | The Lyons Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 417g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 145mm x 22mm |
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About The Author
Joe Cox
Joe Cox is the author of Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching’s Holy Grail and The Immaculate Inning. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Cox is a coauthor of several other sports books. He lives with his family near Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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