01605cam a2200313 4500 264293128 TxAuBib 20131219120000.0 040107s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004040029 9780399151880 alk. paper 0399151885 alk. paper TxAuBib Parker, Robert B. Double Play / Robert B. Parker. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. p. cm. It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers -- and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal. 20040602. Robinson, Jackie 1919-1972 Fiction. African American baseball players Fiction. Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) Fiction. Baseball players Fiction. Race relations Fiction. Bodyguards Fiction. Biographical fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) Fiction. TXHAM