After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes: An Oral History »

Cal Fussman is a contributing editor for ESPN The Magazine and Esquire, where he has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Robert DeNiro, George Steinbrenner, Rudy Giuliani, and LeBron James, among many others. A graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School, he lives with his family in Chapel Hill, N.C.

To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the breaking of baseball s color barrier, an exploration of Jackie Robinson s impact and legacy by the people whose lives were transformed by his courage.

When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he forever changed the game of baseball -- and America itself. In After Jackie, author Cal Fussman traces Robinson s enormous legacy in sports, politics, and the civil rights movement through the men (and women) who came after him. With moving and intimate interviews of more than one hundred former major league players of African-American descent, as well as such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Ali, and Walter Cronkite, among others, After Jackie recalls the day one man altered history for so many, and the history that followed.

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The Pitch: A look at race in American through the prism of baseball, from Jackie Robinson's debut to Hank Aaron's 715th home run.

Curveball: The Dodgers literally stole Robinson from the Kansas City Monarchs, subsequent poaching led to the Negro Leagues demise.

Final Score: Players describe daily humiliations (a clubhouse manager used a long stick to pick up Curt Flood's uniform), epitomizing a sad tradition of injustice that still stings. Grade: A