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Major League Baseball has just completed its season-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's arrival in the game. The number he wore during his 10 years with the Brooklyn Dodgers--42--was permanently retired from use by all teams. Tributes were offered, speeches made. And some...
Rampersad methodically retraces the amazing story of Robinson's transition from a local Southern California hero, albeit with paltry prospects after college, into the man who broke the unstated but implacable color line in major league baseball and changed American race relations forever. First from his mother, and later from...
What Robinson was forced to endure stoically when he came up with the Dodgers was, and remains, unspeakable: beanballs and spikings from opposing players, isolation on the road because he was not allowed to stay with his teammates at segregated hotels, and relentless invective from spectators. His wife Rachel, who...
That bashed artifact bounces repeatedly in the rest of Underworld, eventually coming to rest in the possession of Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm in Phoenix, Ariz., who pays $34,500 to a New Jersey memorabilia dealer named Marvin Lundy for the Thomson souvenir. Why buy something...
The imminence of Underworld has been talked and written about for months. By now nearly everyone who cares about contemporary literary fiction has heard how DeLillo got the inspiration for the novel. Intrigued by the hubbub back in 1991 surrounding the 40th anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and...