Title: Double play
First published: 2004
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.
Subjects: Race relations, African American baseball players, Baseball players, Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team), Fiction, Sports stories, Bodyguards, Biographical fiction, New York Times reviewed, Baseball players, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, sports, African americans, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York
People: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)
LC classification: PS3566.A686 D68 2004