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Double play : a Burke novel, book 1 Cover Image Book

Double play : a Burke novel, book 1 / Robert B. Parker.

Parker, Robert B., 1932-2010 (Author).

Summary:

In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.

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  • ISBN: 0399151885
  • ISBN: 9780399151880
  • Physical Description: 288 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2004]

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Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 > Fiction.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) > Fiction.
African American baseball players > Fiction.
Baseball players > Fiction.
Bodyguards > Fiction.
Race relations > Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Biographical fiction.

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