Shut Out
A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-92779-6
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30th August 2002
- Pages: 296
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About the Book
Shut Out is the compelling story of Boston's racial divide viewed through the lens of one of the city's greatest institutions - its baseball team, and told from the perspective of Boston native and noted sports writer Howard Bryant. This well written and poignant work contains striking interviews in which blacks who played for the Red Sox speak for the first time about their experiences in Boston, as well as groundbreaking chapter that details Jackie Robinson's ill-fated tryout with the Boston Red Sox and the humiliation that followed.
About the Author(s)
Howard Bryant is a journalist covering the New York Yankees for the
Bergen Record. He previously covered the Oakland A's for the
San Jose Mercury News and was an editorial writer and technology columnist for the
Oakland Tribune. He grew up in Boston during the busing crisis of the 1970s and has written extensively on race and baseball. His pieces have appeared in the books
Thinking Black,
The Red Sox Century, and the forthcoming
Yankee Century. He lives in New York City.
