The Fight of Their Lives

The Fight of Their Lives
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781493007202
ISBN-13 : 1493007203
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Book Synopsis The Fight of Their Lives by : John Rosengren

Download or read book The Fight of Their Lives written by John Rosengren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s 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 family’s 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: Marichal’s bat poised to strike Roseboro’s head. The violent moment–uncharacteristic of either man–linked the two forever and haunted both. Much like John Feinstein’s 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.

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