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The way home is longer

Summary: A 1940s novel starring Vince Stigiano who signs up as a bat boy for the Brooklyn Dodgers and witnesses the day Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball. Racist teammates ostracize Robinson, opposition players spike and bean him, and malicious fans mail him death threats. A first novel.

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  • Physical Description: electronic
    electronic resource
    remote
  • Publisher: [Weston] : Idea Logical, 2007.

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General Note:
"A Thomas Dunne book."
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Requires OverDrive Media Console
Requires Adobe Reader 6.0 (file size: 1496 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 255 KB).
Subject: Bat boys -- Fiction
Robinson, Jackie -- 1919-1972 -- Fiction
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Young men -- Fiction
Genre: EBOOK.
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Summary: A 1940s novel starring Vince Stigiano who signs up as a bat boy for the Brooklyn Dodgers and witnesses the day Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball. Racist teammates ostracize Robinson, opposition players spike and bean him, and malicious fans mail him death threats. A first novel.

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