It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers-and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal.
Record details
ISBN:9781597770149
Physical Description:sound recording sound disc 5 compact sound discs (ca. 5 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Edition:Unabridged
Publisher:Beverley Hills, Calif. : Phoenix Audio, p2005, c2004.