Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes: An Oral History
When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he forever changed the game of baseball—and America itself. In After Jackie, author Cal Fussman traces Robinson's enormous legacy in sports, politics, and the civil rights movement through the men and women who came after him. With moving and intimate interviews with more than 100 former major league players of African-American descent as well as such luminaries as Jimmy Carter, Muhammed Ali, and Walter Cronkite, among others, After Jackie recalls the day when one man altered history for so many.
Cal Fussman is a contributing editor of ESPN The Magazine and Esquire, where he has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Robert De Niro, George Steinbrenner, and LeBron James, among many others. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, he lives with his family in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.