Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports by Irwin Silber, Angelo Trento

Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports

Irwin Silber, Angelo Trento

236 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history informative medium-paced
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Long before Branch Rickey signed Jackie Robinson to a Brooklyn Dodger contract in 1945, Lester Rodney, the newly hired and first sports editor of the Communist Daily Worker, launched the campaign that proved decisive in eventually breaking basebal...

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