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While serving in the military, Jackie Robinson was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated bus....
The baseball season is now upon us. "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball," wrote Columbia University scholar Jacques Barzun in 1954.
That observation remains true today and in the intervening years our national pastime has inspired great poems, music, plays, films, novels, and thousands of biographies, autobiographies, histories, essays, and other nonfiction works.
Baseball reflects every aspect of American life and culture. Baseball has become a big business.
Jackie Robinson: Get to the Bag spotlights the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson beyond baseball.It is deeply intertwined with American politics. Its players created the most successful labor union in the country. In these 50 nonfiction books, you can read about colorful players and managers, remarkable feats of athletic prowess, and fascinating stories about fans, scouts, owners and executives, and even umpires.
But you can also learn about labor strife, racism, sexism, the rise and decline of cities, the growth of the suburbs, the resilience of small towns, homophobia, immi
