Double play
By: Robert B. Parker.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Fiction; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Fiction; African American baseball players -- Fiction; Baseball players -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Bodyguards -- Fiction; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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. A veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, Burke is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal."--BOOK JACKET.