About this book
"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. A veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, Burke 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Race relationsAfrican American baseball playersBaseball playersBrooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)FictionSports storiesBodyguardsBiographical fictionNew York Times reviewedBaseball players, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionFiction, sportsAfrican americans, fictionFiction, historical, generalFiction, mystery & detective, general