Baseball's Great Experiment
Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10232170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey T Sammons (corresponding author), Jules Tygiel |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 343 |
| Publication date | 1984-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2209502 |
| OpenAlex | W2118339787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
In 1997 the American people will celebrate with great fanfare and publicity the fiftieth anniversary of Jackie Robinson's explosive entrance into major league baseball. Robinson has become a national icon, his name a virtual synonym for pathbreaker. Indeed, much has transpired between this young African-American's first bold strides around the baseball diamonds of a segregated America and General Manager Bob Watson's pride in assembling 1996 World Champion New York Yankees. Recognizing this monumental event in America's continuing struggle for integration, Jules Tygiel has expanded his highly acclaimed Baseball's Great Experiment. In a new afterword, he addresses the mythology surrounding Robinson's achievements, his overall effect on baseball and other sports, and the enduring legacy Robinson has left for African Americans and American society. In this gripping account of one of the most important steps in the history of American desegregation, Tygiel tells the story of Jackie Robinson's crossing of baseball's color line. Examining the social and historical context of Robinson's introduction into white organized baseball, both on and off the field, Tygiel also tells the often neglected stories of other African-American players--such as Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, and Hank Aaron--who helped transform our national pastime into an integrated game. Drawing on dozens of interviews with players and front office executives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and personal papers, Tygiel provides the most telling and insightful account of Jackie Robinson's influence on American baseball and society
Art history · Genealogy · American Sports and Literature · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Gentleman Athlete
Field of Deferred Dreams
Integrity, Sportsmanship, Character
Barry Beckham’s Runner Mack and the Tradition of Black Baseball Literature
Black Churches and Their Attitudes to the Social Protest in the Civil Rights Era
Culture, Politics, and Baseball in the Dominican Republic
Burying the Hatchet? Elite Influence and White Opinion on the Washington Redskins Controversy
The African American Experience in Professional Football
At the Nexus of Labor and Leisure
Bending the Academic Color Line
Out of Anarchism and Into the Academy
What’s in a Name? Symbolic Racism, Public Opinion, and the Controversy over the NFL’s Washington Football Team Name
Reflections on African Americans in Baseball
Michael Sam, Jackie Robinson, and the Politics of Respectability
Labels of African American Ballers
Beyond Jackie Robinson
Critical Events or Critical Conditions
The Proactive Removal of Discriminatory Barriers
Labour Markets in Professional Sports
Playing with the Lines
The socio-political context of the integration of sport in America
The white supremacy continuum of images for black men
Athletes as Abusers and Victims
Blacks in major league baseball
Ballplayer or Barrier Breaker? Branding through the Seven Statues of Jackie Robinson
Mary Garber's Coverage of Black Sports in the US Segregated South, 1944–1964
Basketball's Forgotten Experiment
Let the games begin
Roberto Clemente
Jim Crow in the gymnasium
Black Athletes in White Men's Games’
To Canada with Love’
Culture/Wars
Goodbye to the Gangstas
Prejudice in Major League Baseball
On Sport, Public History, and Public Sport History
Counting the Ways
Doby Does It! Larry Doby, Race, and American Democracy in Post-World War II America
With All Deliberate Speed”
Mapping Sport History and the History of Sport in Europe
Tempering the Dichotomous Flame
| Unique citing works | 41 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |