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42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story
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Ed Henry looks past the familiar account of Jackie Robinson's breakthrough in Major League Baseball to examine the faith that shaped him. Using sermons that have only recently come to light, interviews with relatives and friends, and an unpublished manuscript by Robinson himself, the book reveals a more private side of the player. It also explores Branch Rickey, the Dodgers executive who signed Robinson, showing a man who wrestled with his choice and was swayed by a conversation with a minister he had only just met.
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The narrative follows Robinson from his early years before baseball through his years with the Dodgers and into his final years, when his health was failing. Henry argues that his religious convictions drove him and tested him after he retired, and that they are central to understanding his place in the history of civil rights. The result is a portrait that adds a spiritual dimension to a story many readers think they already know.
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