Carrying Jackie's Torch: The Players Who Integrated Baseball--and America PDF
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Carrying Jackie’s Torch The Players Who Integrated Baseball—and America Steve Jacobson ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,ii ii 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5544 PPMM Library of Congress Cataloging–in–Publication Data Jacobson, Steve. Carrying Jackie’s torch : the players who integrated baseball . . . and America / Steve Jacobson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN–13: 978–1–55652–639–8 ISBN–10: 1–55652–639–3 1. African American baseball players—Biography. 2. Baseball players —United States—Biography. 3. Discrimination in sports—United States. 4. Baseball—United States—History. I. Title. GV865.A1J34 2007 796.3570922—dc22 [B]2006014278 Cover design: Todd Petersen Interior design: Pamela Juàrez Interior photo credits: Page xxiv, Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers; page 2, Jackie Robinson in 1946; page 14, Monte Irvin; page 28, Larry Doby; page 40, Ed Charles; page 54, Mudcat Grant; page 66, Ernie Banks; page 76, Elston Howard completing a World Series home run; page 86, Alvin Jackson; page 96, Charlie Murray; page 106, Chuck Harmon; page 116, Maury Wills; page 128, Emmett Ashford; page 138, Frank Robinson; page 152, Tommy Davis; page 164, Bob Gibson; page 178, Curt Flood; page 192, Henry Aaron; page 208, Dusty Baker; page 220, Lou Brock breaking records for stolen bases; page 230, Bob Watson; page 240, Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. All photos courtesy of The Baseball Hall of Fame. © 2007 by Steve Jacobson All rights reserved First edition Published by Lawrence Hill Books An Imprint of Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN–13: 978–1–55652–639–8 ISBN–10: 1–55652–639–3 Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''iivv,, 11--226644))..iinndddd iiii 1100//1199//0066 1100::1122::1122 AAMM To my parents, Roselyn and Harold Jacobson, who taught me honesty and the deception of the curveball. To my wife, Anita, who was her father’s fi rst son at Ebbets Field and who encouraged me to expand the stories I brought home from the ballpark. To my grown children, Mathew and Neila, who smile because I am their father, and laugh because there is nothing I can do about it. And to Susan, Mathew’s wife, who hardly knew what she was getting into. ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,iiiiii iiiiii 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,iivv iivv 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 Equal but Separate 1 Before Jackie Changed Everything 2 He Made His Own History 13 Monte Irvin Might Have Been First 3 Second, and Second to None 27 Larry Doby Bears the Burden with Grace 4 A Closed World Opens Up 39 Ed Charles Finds There Is a Chance 5 Worse than You Imagine 53 Mudcat Grant Dodged the Bullets ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,vv vv 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM 6 Looking Back with Regret 65 Ernie Banks Was Playing Baseball 7 The Pinstripes Go Black and White 75 Elston Howard Hid the Pain 8 You Know You Go in the Back Door 85 Alvin Jackson Reports to Spring Training 9 I’m No Jackie Robinson 95 Too Much Bigotry for Charlie Murray 10 Recognition 50 Years Later 105 Chuck Harmon Gets His Own Street 11 Sometimes People Live and Learn 115 Maury Wills Finds a White Ally 12 Forever Is Not Too Long to Wait 127 Emmett Ashford Umpires Alone ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,vvii vvii 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM 13 Most Valuable Attitude 137 Frank Robinson Made Them Better 14 The Best of Them Don’t Always Understand 151 Tommy Davis Reminds the Dodgers of Their Heritage 15 Living Up to His Own Image 163 Bob Gibson Overcomes the Stereotype 16 Joan of Arc of Baseball 177 Curt Flood Sacrifi ces His Career 17 Breaking That Record and Bigoted Hearts 191 Henry Aaron Sets the Record 18 What Would Jackie Do 207 Dusty Baker Finds His Answers 19 Coping with the Ever–Present Danger 219 Lou Brock Outsmarted the Threats ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,vviiii vviiii 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM 20 The Only Black in the Room 229 Bob Watson Wears a Necktie 21 Epilogue 239 We Integrated Baseball and America Followed Bibliography 251 Index 253 ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,vviiiiii vviiiiii 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM Acknowledgments Special thanks to Tommy Carney, who heard my thoughts over the bar and demanded that I write them, and Bob Sales, my favorite news- paper copyeditor, who made sense out of my original text. Thanks to agents Jane Dystel and Miriam Goderich, who found an unafraid pub- lisher, and to Cynthia Sherry and Lisa Rosenthal, who helped me con- vert decades of sports page idiom for people who might not be able to recite the infi eld fl y rule. ix ccaarrrryyiinngg jjaacckkiiee''ss ttoorrcchh ((ii--xxxxiivv,,iixx iixx 1100//55//0066 99::5566::5555 PPMM
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