Title: Double play
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.
Subjects: Baseball players, African American baseball players, Race relations, Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team), Fiction, Bodyguards
Places: Brooklyn, New York (State), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York
People: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)