"Opening Day"

"Opening Day"
Date: 4/14/2007

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Branch Rickey thought baseball was ready for integration but as Jackie Robinson found out in 1947, most of the Dodgers organization and the rest of the nation was not. Jonathan Eig joins Bill from NPR's New York bureau to discuss his book "Opening Day," which documents Robinson's first year in the league, and how No. 42's play slowly transformed a nation.

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