Double play

Resource Information

The work Double play represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Double play

Statement of responsibility

Robert B. Parker

Creator

• Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010

Subject

• Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
• Bodyguards -- Fiction
• Baseball players -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Baseball players
• Biographical fiction
• African American baseball players -- Fiction
• Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)
• Bodyguards
• Large type books
• Large type books
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
• African American baseball players
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Race relations
• New York (State) -- New York | Brooklyn

Genre

• Fiction
• Biographical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

GEC

Dewey number

FIC

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3566.A686

LC item number

D68 2004

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries