Fight of Their Lives e-bog
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One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseballs most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pastime reflected the tensions in society and nearly sullied two men forever. Juan Marichal, a Dominican anxious about his familys safety during the civil war back home, and John Roseboro, a black man living in South Central L.A. shaken by the Watts riots ...
E-bog
127,71 DKK
Forlag
Lyons Press
Udgivet
18 februar 2014
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
1KBB
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781493007202
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseballs most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pastime reflected the tensions in society and nearly sullied two men forever. Juan Marichal, a Dominican anxious about his familys safety during the civil war back home, and John Roseboro, a black man living in South Central L.A. shaken by the Watts riots a week earlier, attacked one another in a moment immortalized by an iconic photo: Marichals bat poised to strike Roseboros head. The violent momentuncharacteristic of either manlinked the two forever and haunted both. Much like John Feinsteins The Punch, The Fight of Their Lives examines the incident in its context and aftermath, only in this story the two men eventually reconcile and become friends, making theirs an unforgettable tale of forgiveness and redemption. The book also explores American culture and the racial prejudices against blacks and Latinos both men faced and surmounted. As two of the premiere ballplayers of their generation, they realized they had more to unite them than keep them apart.