Double play / Robert B. Parker.
By: Parker, Robert B.
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BookPublisher: New York : Putnam's, c2004Description: 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0399151885 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Fiction | African American baseball players -- Fiction | Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Fiction | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction | Baseball players -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Bodyguards -- Fiction | Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Fiction | African American baseball players -- Fiction | Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) -- Fiction | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction | Baseball players -- Fiction | Race relations -- Fiction | Bodyguards -- Fiction | Biographical fictionGenre/Form: Biographical fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: Joseph Burke, physically and emotionally wounded in World War II, finds hope and healing during a season spent serving as bodyguard to Jackie Robinson in 1947, the year Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball.
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Joseph Burke, physically and emotionally wounded in World War II, finds hope and healing during a season spent serving as bodyguard to Jackie Robinson in 1947, the year Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball.
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