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Article: The Jackie Robinson Reader.
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- The World and I
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- February 1, 1998
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THE JACKIE ROBINSON READER
Edited by Jules Tygiel New York: Dutton, 1997 280 pp., $23.95
The 1997 baseball season marked the fiftieth anniversary of the end of segregation in major league baseball. It was 1947 when Jackie Robinson made his historic debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The news of his signing a contract to play in white-only "organized" baseball electrified the nation. Not for sixty years had the major leagues seen even a token black player. Segregation was still the law of the land throughout the South. Indeed, all the early civil rights landmarks--the desegregation of the armed forces, the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision, and the ...