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Press box red : the story of Lester Rodney, the communist who helped break the color line in American sports
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- Creator
- Irwin Silber ; foreword by Jules Tygiel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781566399739, 1566399734, 9781566399746, 1566399742
- OCLC
- ocm51544232
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-223) and index.
- Foreword / Jules Tygiel -- Ch. 1. The Daily Worker Starts a Sports Section -- Ch. 2. Growing Up in Brooklyn -- Ch. 3. A Communist in the Press Box? -- Ch. 4. "Jim Crow Must Go!" (Part 1): The Daily Worker's Campaign to Break the Color Line in Organized Baseball -- Ch. 5. "Jim Crow Must Go!" (Part 2): And the Walls Came (Slowly) Tumbling Down -- Ch. 6. The Impact of Baseball's Integration -- Ch. 7. The Ballplayers and the Communist -- Ch. 8. Boxing: The Brutal "Sport" and the Class Angle -- Ch. 9. Hoop Dreams - and Scandals