Foreword Senator Charles E. Schumer Preface Acknowledgments Jackie, Do They Know? An Ode to Jackie Robinson Tom (Tommy) Hawkins Introduction Part I. Historical Perspectives
1. In the Eye of the Storm: 1947 in World Perspective 2. Men of Conscience 3. Moses Fleetwood Walker: Jackie Robinson's Accidental Predecessor
4. Monte Irvin: Up from Sharecropping Part II. Fans' Remembrances
5. It Happened in Brooklyn: Reminiscences of a Fan 6. The Interborough Iliad 7. Father and Son at Ebbets Field 8. A Ten-Year-Old Dodger Fan Welcomes Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Ivan W. Hametz 9. Mah Nishtanah Part III. The Radical Press/ Agenda
10. Baseball on the Radical Agenda: The Daily Worker and Sunday Worker Journalistic Campaign to Desegregate Major League Baseball, 1933-1947 11. White Dodgers, Black Dodgers 12. Robinson-Robeson Part IV. On the [Level?] Playing Field 13. Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, and Jackie Robinson: Race, Identity, and Ethnic Power 14. Burt Shotton: The Crucible of 1947 15. Jackie Robinson on Opening Day, 1947-1956 Part V. Measuring the Impact on Baseball
16. Jackie Robinson and the Third Age of Modern Baseball 17. Jackie Robinson and the Emancipation of Latin American Baseball Players 18. The Two Titans and the Mystery Man: Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, and John L. Smith as Brooklyn Dodgers Partners, 1944-1950 Part VI. Measuring the Impact on Society 19. Robinson in 1947: Measuring an Uncertain Impact
20. "Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night": Race, the Baseball Establishment, and the Retirements of Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson 21. Kareem's Omission? Jackie Robinson, Black Profile in Courage 22. Should We Rely on the Marketplace to End Discrimination? What the Integration of Baseball Tells Us Part VII. Thank You, Jackie Robinson 23. Greetings 24. Keynote Address About the Contributors Index