As a society, we are captivated by policing; we watch police procedurals & fly-on-the-wall documentaries & absorb the headlines
...From 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League team to integrate, more than a hundred African American baseball players crossed the colour line & made it to the Major Leagues. This book profiles each of these players, their statistics, & their triumphs & trials.