Opening Day (English)

Sportswriter Jonathan Eig recreates the historic 1947 season in which Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color line in major league baseball, forever changing not only the sport but America itself. Through prodigious research into the archives, and interviews with those who were there, Eig tells many great baseball stories and sets down the true history of that time, which culminated in a dramatic World Series between the two New York teams, the Dodgers and the Yankees. Eig portrays Robinson as a strong competitor, who clearly justified Branch Rickey's decision to choose him as the first African American to play on a major league team. minimize