Double play
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
African American baseball players
Bodyguards
Baseball players
Race relations
Fiction
It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and …
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