Rickey & Robinson
by Roger Kahn
The True, Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball
In Rickey & Robinson, legendary
sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of
the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on
inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting
and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including
revelatory material he’d buried in his notebooks in the 40s and 50s,
back when sportswriters were still known to "protect" players and
baseball executives.That starts, first and foremost, with an
in-depth examination of the two men chiefly responsible for making
integration happen: Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson. Considering
Robinson’s exalted place in American culture (as evidenced by the
remarkable success of the recent biopic), the book’s eye-opening
revelations are sure to generate controversy as well as conversation. No
other sportswriter working today carries Kahn’s authority when writing
about this period in baseball history, and the publication of this book,
Kahn’s last, is a true literary event. In Rickey & Robinson,
Kahn separates fact from myth to present a truthful portrait of
baseball and its participants at a critical juncture in American
history.
In Rickey & Robinson, legendary
sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of
the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on
inaccurate, second-hand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting
and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including
revelatory material he’d buried in his notebooks in the 40s and 50s,
back when sportswriters were still known to "protect" players and
baseball executives.That starts, first and foremost, with an
in-depth examination of the two men chiefly responsible for making
integration happen: Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson. Considering
Robinson’s exalted place in American culture (as evidenced by the
remarkable success of the recent biopic), the book’s eye-opening
revelations are sure to generate controversy as well as conversation. No
other sportswriter working today carries Kahn’s authority when writing
about this period in baseball history, and the publication of this book,
Kahn’s last, is a true literary event. In Rickey & Robinson,
Kahn separates fact from myth to present a truthful portrait of
baseball and its participants at a critical juncture in American
history.