History 4464/5464: American Sports History

Review Guidelines: Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

Spring 2012

Due Date: February 21

Length: 3-4 pages

Margins: One inch     Font: 10-12 point    Spacing: Double-spaced.  (Spaces between paragraphs don’t count toward paper length.) 

For this paper, I would like you to write on the following topic:

Where does Jules Tygiel place Jackie Robinson within the history of African Americans in baseball and within the history of race relations in the United States.  How does he assess Robinson’s significance to those histories?

There is no need to consult any other source for this book review.  I want to see what you get out of the book and how you evaluate it.  I will expect your paper to be clearly and grammatically written with a minimum of typos.   If you quote from the book, cite the page number in the following way:

“Franklin Roosevelt had a black Scottie named Fala”(35).

Plagiarism in any form will result in failure of the course.