Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1. Reflections on Jackie Robinson; 1. Introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader (1997); 2. The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1984); 3. Jackie Robinson's Signing: The Untold Story (1988); 4. Afterword to Baseball's Great Experiment (1997); Part 2. Reflections on Race and Baseball; 5. Black Ball: The Jim Crow Years (1989, 2001); 6. Unreconciled Strivings: Baseball in Jim Crow America (2); 7. Introduction to It's Good to Be Alive (1995); 8. Black Ball: The Integrated Game (1989, 2001); Part 3. Reflections on Baseball History; 9. Playing by the Book: Baseball History in the 1980s (1986); 10. Sports from a Sofa (1985); 11. Ken Burns Meets Jackie Robinson (1996); 12. The Polo Grounds (2); 13. Salaries Are Escalating, but They Don't Guarantee Winning (2); Acknowledgments

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Illuminates significant events and issues in the history of baseball

About the Author

Jules Tygiel is a professor of history at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Past Time: Baseball as History, and Baseball's Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy.

Reviews

"The essays about Jackie Robinson and Jim Crow baseball, Tygiel's specialities, are small gems that are worth the price of this relatively inexpensive paperback." Library Journal (September 2002) "Jules Tygiel's Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History fills out and occasionally challenges the Robinson legend...Tygiel ... is perhaps the leading expert on baseball and integration ... and presents arresting and satisfying anecdotes with his tempered analysis." New York Times Book Review