Double play
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrier -- and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Robinson's bodyguard -- and those changes can prove fatal.
| Main Author: | Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010. |
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| Format: | Downloads eBook Books eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
2005.
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
| Summary: |
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrier -- and changes the world. The event also changes the life of Robinson's bodyguard -- and those changes can prove fatal. |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource |
| Format: |
Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 629 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
| ISBN: |
9781101204818 |
| Author Notes: |
Robert Brown Parker is an American fiction writer of mysteries. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and earned his BA degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He went on to earn his master's degree in English literature from Boston University. He started his career working in advertising. After some years, he went back to school to earn his PhD in English from Boston University in 1971. He then began his writng career while teaching at Northeastern University. He decided to become a full-time writer in 1979. His most popular works were the 40 novels written about the private detective Spenser. The ABC Television Network developed the television series "Spenser: For Hire", based on the character in the mid-1980s. Parker also wrote nine novels based on the character Jesse Stone and six novels based on the character Sunny Randall. On January 18, 2010, Robert Parker died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts. (Bowker Author Biography) |