Opening Day by Jonathan Eig | Free Audiobook

16/04/2007 12h 6min
Opening Day by Jonathan Eig | Free Audiobook

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Title: Opening Day

Author: Jonathan Eig

Narrator: Richard Allen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-07

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Summary:

He was an unlikely hero. He had little experience in organized baseball. His swing was far from graceful. And he was assigned to play first base, a position he had never tried before that season. But the biggest concern was his temper. Robinson was an angry man who played an aggressive style of ball. In order to succeed, he would have to control himself in the face of what promised to be a brutal assault by opponents of integration.

Drawing on interviews with surviving players, sportswriters, and eyewitnesses, as well as newly discovered material from archives around the country, Jonathan Eig presents a fresh portrait of a ferocious competitor who embodied integration's promise and helped launch the modern civil-rights era. Full of new details and thrilling action, Opening Day brings to life baseball's ultimate story.

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