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Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America.(Book review)
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March 22, 2008
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- Lowenfish, Lee
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Steve Jacobson. Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2007. 264 pages. Cloth, $24.95.
During the activist decade of the 1960s, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory commented bitterly that if white people had to put up with what black people have had to endure in America, half of them would have committed suicide and the other half would be burning down the country. I couldn't help but think of Gregory's raging, if hardly constructive insight when reading Steve Jacobson's Carrying Jackie's Torch. A veteran New York sportswriter who has been covering baseball since the late 1950s, Jacobson has ...