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In three pages this paper discusses the text’s theme, author’s main argument and how he approaches the subject matter such as his source documentation, intended audience, and personal assessment of the author’s position. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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was always the one athletic event "that captured the imaginations, dominated the sports pages, and people really lived and died with" (Ballard 20). First and foremost, Tygiel is an
historian, and therefore it is not surprising that he approaches the subject of baseball in his text Baseballs Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy from an historical standpoint, considering
not only the history of the sport itself but also its profound influence upon the history of the United States (Ballard 20). Since its publication in 1983, it has
received lofty praise as "the most important as well as the most celebrated book on the subject of baseball, and especially on the subject of African Americans in baseball history
(Barney and Barney 155). Tygiel carefully structures his arguments to support the theme that the integration of Major League Baseball led to the integration of American society. Tygiel states
his case in a scholarly manner as evident by his exhaustive research from secondary archival sources, government and baseball documents such as second baseball commissioner Happy Chandlers papers, and numerous
books and newspapers (local, regional, and black), and thirty-five interviews from a veritable whos who in Major League Baseball that includes management and celebrities alike. Tygiel takes great pains
not to overwhelm readers with too many facts and figures. He is well aware that his audience in all likelihood already shares his love for the game and so
he does not need to recruit any converts to the sport. But what he seeks to do is impress these sports aficionados with the historical significance of including black
players on the MLB roster. The text begins appropriately on baseballs opening day, April 18, 1946, the first such opening day since the end of World War II.
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