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This book collects the columns which baseball legend Jackie Robinson wrote for the New York Post and the New York Amsterdam News, as well as excerpts of letters between Robinson and politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy. The brevity of the columns and Robinson's vivid imagery and compelling voice make this an absorbing and very moving read.

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Michael G. Long employs Robinson's own words in his edited volume Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball to stitch together an extraordinary life that, in many ways, became even more extraordinary after Robinson's retirement from the game. Mining through ten years of nationally syndicated newspaper columns that Robinson wrote, first for the New York Post from 1959 to 1960 and, afterward, for the New York Amsterdam News from 1962 to 1968, Beyond Home Plate introduces its readers to the familiar--Robinson's love of the game of baseball and devotion to his family, friends, and supporters--and the not-so-familiar-- Robinson's foray into the arena of national politics and punditry in the midst of, arguably, the most turbulent decade of American history: the Sixties. --Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College--Salt Lake City The Journal of American Culture

Michael G. Long employs Robinson sown words in his edited volume Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball to stitchtogether an extraordinary life that, in many ways, became even more extraordinary after Robinson sretirement from the game. Mining through ten years ofnationally syndicated newspaper columns that Robinsonwrote, first for the New York Post from 1959 to1960 and, afterward, for the New York AmsterdamNews from 1962 to 1968, Beyond Home Plate introducesits readers to the familiar Robinson s love ofthe game of baseball and devotion to his family, friends, and supporters and the not-so-familiar Robinson s foray into the arena of national politics andpunditry in the midst of, arguably, the most turbulentdecade of American history: the Sixties.--Mark Rubinfeld, Westminster College--Salt Lake City The Journal of American Culture

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Michael Long is the author and editor of several books on politics, religion, and civil rights. He is the author, most recently, of Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement.

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