"SPORTS & RECREATION Baseball History." . . "Baseball." . . "Baseball" . . "Carrying Jackie's torch : the players who integrated baseball-and America" . . . . . . "\"The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 through 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents. Stories include incidents of white players who gave up promising careers in baseball because they wouldn t play with a black teammate, the Georgia law that forbade a black player from dressing in the same clubhouse as the white players, the quotas for the number of blacks on a team, and how salary negotiations without agents or free agency were akin to a plantation system for both black and white players. The 20 players profiled include Ernie Banks, Alvin Jackson, Charlie Murray, Chuck Harmon, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and Bob Watson\"--Publisher description." . . "Carrying Jackie's Torch : the Players Who Integrated Baseball-and America"@en . . . . . "Biography" . . "Biography"@en . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Carrying Jackie's torch : the players who integrated baseball-- and America" . . "Carrying Jackie's torch : the players who integrated baseball--and America" . . "Carrying Jackie's torch the players who integrated baseball - and America" . "Carrying Jackie's torch the players who integrated baseball-- and America"@en . . "Chronicles the real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 to 1968. This book shares the players' personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents."@en . "History"@en . . "History" . . . . "Baseball players United States." . . "Discrimination in sports United States." . . "Rassendiskriminierung." . . "Rassendiskriminierung" . "Baseball United States History." . . "USA." . . "USA" . "1900 - 1999" . . . . "African American baseball players." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sports." . . "Schwarze." . . "Schwarze" .