A review by charle
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig

4.0

Very good - author did lots of research and interviewed Jackie Robinons's wife and some friends to write this story. I liked it a lot since it combined baseball with social justice. I felt the author gave you detailed descriptions of characters and events so you could know the characters involved in the story and feel you were there at the event in the time and place. I would say you 'd have to like baseball - lots of detail of games and plays, but he moved the story along well. He really gave you a sense of the racial issues black people dealt with at that time - good source of our history.