kie, cl\ouiinion Race, Sports, and the American Dream
Edited by Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund
.E. Sharpe Armonk, New York London, England Contents
Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson Tom (Tommy) Hawkins xv Introduction Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund xvii
Part I. Historical Perspectives 1 1. In the Eye of the Storm: 1947 in World Perspective Joram Warmund 3 2. Men of Conscience Peter Golenbock 13 3. Moses Fleetwood Walker: Jackie Robinson's Accidental Predecessor Sidney Gendin 22 4. Monte Irvin: Up from Sharecropping Jack B.Moore 30
Part II. Fans'Remembrances 41 5. It Happened in Brooklyn: Reminiscences of a Fan Robert Gruber 43 6. The Interborough Iliad Peter Williams 49 7. Father and Son at Ebbets Field Peter Levine 61 8. A Ten-Year-Old Dodger Fan Welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Ivan W. Hametz " 66 9. Mah Nishtanah Henry Foner 70
Part III. The Radical Press/Agenda 73 10. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily Worker and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947 Kelly E. Rusinack 75 11. White Dodgers, Black Dodgers Lester Rodney 86 12. Robinson—Robeson BillMardo 98
Part IV. On the [Level?] Playing Field 107 13. Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson: Race, Identity, and Ethnic Power Joseph Dorinson 109 14. BurtShotton: The Crucible of 1947 Robert A. Moss 121 15. Jackie Robinson on Opening Day, 1947-1956 LyleSpatz 132
PartV. Measuring the Impact on Baseball 147 16. Jackie Robinson and the Third Age of Modern Baseball David Shiner 149 17. Jackie Robinson and the Emancipation of Latin American Baseball Players Samuel O. Regalado 157 18. The Two Titans and the Mystery Man: Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers Partners, 1944-1950 Lee Lowenfish 165 Part VI. Measuring the Impact on Society 179 19. Robinson in 1947: Measuring an Uncertain Impact Henry D. Fetter 183 20. "Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night": Race, the Baseball Establishment, and the Retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson RonBriley 193 21. Kareem' s Omission? Jackie Robinson, Black Profile in Courage Patrick Henry 205 22. Should We Rely on the Marketplace to End Discrimination? What the Integration of Baseball Tells Us Robert Cherry 214
Part VII.Thank You, Jackie Robinson 235 23. Greetings Carl Erskine 237 24. Keynote Address Roger Rosenblatt 240
About the Contributors 247 Index 253