Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball

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Beyond HOME PLATE Sports and Entertainment Steven A. Riess, Series Editor Other titles from Sports and Entertainment Abel Kiviat, National Champion: Twentieth-Century Track & Field and the Melting Pot Alan S. Katchen Anything for a T-Shirt: Fred Lebow and the New York City Marathon, the World’s Greatest Footrace Ron Rubin Blacks at the Net: Black Achievement in the History of Tennis, Two Volumes Sundiata Djata Fair Dealing and Clean Playing: The Hilldale Club and the Development of Black Professional Baseball, 1910–1932 Neil Lanctot Muscle and Manliness: The Rise of Sport in American Boarding Schools Axel Bundgaard My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White Andrew Furman The New Cathedrals: Politics and Media in the History of Stadium Construction Robert C. Trumpbour Shaping College Football: The Transformation of an American Sport, 1919–1930 Raymond Schmidt The Sport of Kings and the Kings of Crime: Horse Racing, Politics, and Organized Crime in New York, 1865–1913 Steven A. Riess Tarnished Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Salt Lake City Bid Scandal Stephen Wenn, Robert Barney, and Scott Martyn Beyond HOME PLATE Jackie Robinson ON LIFE AFTER BASEBALL Edited by Michael G. Long Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2013 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2013 13 14 15 16 17 18 6 5 4 3 2 1 Jackie Robinson’s columns that previously appeared in the New York Amsterdam News, the New York Post, and Look magazine are reprinted here with permission. “Trouble Ahead Needn’t Bother You” by Jackie Robinson is reproduced with permission from Guideposts magazine, Guideposts.org. Copyright © by Guideposts. All rights reserved. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit our website at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-1001-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available upon request from the publisher. Manufactured in the United States of America For Nate, who plays T-ball for the Highland Dodgers and Jackson, who questions injustice I won’t have it “made” until the most underprivileged Negro in Mississippi can live in equal dignity with anyone else in America. —J a c k i e R o b i n s o n , New York Post, August 22, 1960 Michael G. Long is an associate professor of religious studies and peace and conflict studies at Elizabethtown College and the author or editor of several books on civil rights, religion, and politics in midcentury America, including I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters (2012), Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall (2011), and First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson (2007). Long’s work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, USA Today, Book Forum, Ebony/Jet, and many other newspapers and journals. He has appeared on C-Span and NPR, and his speaking engagements have taken him from the National Archives in Washington, DC, to the Schomberg Center of the New York Public Library in Harlem, and to the City Club of San Diego. He holds a PhD from Emory University in Atlanta and resides in Highland Park, Pennsylvania. ...