附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.
Fried Chicken and Hard-boiled Eggs -- Jim Crow Baseball Must End -- Rickey and Robinson Challenge Segregated Baseball -- Robinson and Wright Take Their Game to Sanford -- Robinson and Wright Flee Sanford by Sundown -- Robinson Takes the Field -- Cheap Talk, Mexican Millionaires, and Eddie Klep -- Lights Out in Deland and Locked Gates in Jacksonville -- Integration Stands Its Ground against Southern Intolerance -- Robinson Wins the Day during His First Game in Montreal.
摘要:In the spring of 1946, following the defeat of Hitler's Germany, America found itself still struggling with the subtler but no less insidious tyrannies of racism and segregation at home. In the midst of it all, Jackie Robinson, a full year away from breaking major league baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers, was undergoing a harrowing dress rehearsal for integration-his first spring training as a minor league prospect with the Montreal Royals, Brooklyn's AAA team. In Blackout, Chris Lamb tells what happened during these six weeks in segregated Florida-six weeks that would become a critical juncture for the national pastime and for an American society on the threshold of a civil rights revolution.
