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Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports »
Authors: Angelo Trento, Irwin Silber
ISBN-13: 9781566399739, ISBN-10: 1566399734
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Angelo Trento
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | The Daily Worker Starts a Sports Section | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | Growing Up in Brooklyn | 19 |
| Ch. 3 | A Communist in the Press Box? | 31 |
| Ch. 4 | "Jim Crow Must Go!" (Part 1): The Daily Worker's Campaign to Break the Color Line in Organized Baseball | 49 |
| Ch. 5 | "Jim Crow Must Go!" (Part 2): And the Walls Came (Slowly) Tumbling Down | 89 |
| Ch. 6 | The Impact of Baseball's Integration | 123 |
| Ch. 7 | The Ballplayers and the Communist | 143 |
| Ch. 8 | Boxing: The Brutal "Sport" and the Class Angle | 171 |
| Ch. 9 | Hoop Dreams - and Scandals | 199 |
| Postscript | 215 | |
| Bibliography | 221 | |
| Index | 225 |
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