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As legend players for the 1955 World Champion Brooklyn Dodgers, and prior to that as the first black players to be candidates to break professional baseball's color barrier, Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella would seem to be to be natural allies. However the two men were divided by way of a rivalry going much beyond the personality differences and petty jealousies of competitive teammates. Behind the bitterness were deep and differing beliefs about the deal with for civil rights. Robinson, the greater aggressive and strong of the two, thought Jim Crow should be attacked head-on; Campanella, more passive and easygoing, assumed that capability, not militancy, was the key to racial equality. Pulling on interviews with past players such as Monte Irvin, Hank Aaron, Carl Erskine, and Don Zimmer, Jackie and Campy offers a closer look at both of these players and their place in a historical movement torn between lively defiance and passive level of resistance. William C. Kashatus deepens our understanding of these two football icons and civil rights pioneers and provides a clearer picture of their own time and our own.
