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Double play Cover Image Book

Double play

Parker, Robert B. 1932-2010 (Author).

Summary: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.

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  • ISBN: 0399151885
  • Physical Description: print
    288 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2004]

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Subject: Robinson, Jackie 1919-1972 Fiction
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) Fiction
African American baseball players Fiction
Baseball players Fiction
Bodyguards Fiction
Race relations Fiction
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction
Genre: Fiction.

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  • 31 of 31 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Nantahala Regional Library.

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