Double play
By: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Wheeler Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Waterville, ME
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781587247309
Subjects: Baseball players; African American baseball players; Bodyguards; Large type books; Race relations; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team); 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. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, 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.