{"title":"John Rosengren","description":"John Rosengren is the award-winning author of eight books, including Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes and Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win. His articles have appeared in Men's Journal, Reader's Digest, Runner's World, Sports Illustrated and Utne Reader, among other publications. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, he lives in Minneapolis.","products":[{"product_id":"the-fight-of-their-lives-how-juan-marichal-and-john-roseboro-turned-baseballs-ugliest-brawl-into-a-story-of-forgiveness-and-redemption-paperback","title":"The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Roseboro Turned Baseball's Ugliest Brawl into a Story of Forgiveness and Redemption - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 2014 CASEY Award finalist for the best baseball book of the year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For baseball fans of a certain age, it's the ugliest thing they've ever seen in a game... Rosengren details not only the fight, but the role of race in 1965 America, how the two eventually made up, became friends and even signed photos of the fight together.\"\u003cbr\u003e--New York Post \"must-read books\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow in paperback!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball's most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pastime reflected the tensions in society and nearly sullied two men forever. Juan Marichal, a Dominican anxious about his family's safety during the civil war back home, and John Roseboro, a black man living in South Central L.A. shaken by the Watts riots a week earlier, attacked one another in a moment immortalized by an iconic photo: Marichal's bat poised to strike Roseboro's head.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe violent moment-uncharacteristic of either man-linked the two forever and haunted both. Much like John Feinstein's The Punch, The Fight of Their Lives examines the incident in its context and aftermath, only in this story the two men eventually reconcile and become friends, making theirs an unforgettable tale of forgiveness and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book also explores American culture and the racial prejudices against blacks and Latinos both men faced and surmounted. As two of the premiere ballplayers of their generation, they realized they had more to unite them than keep them apart.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67927342645471,"sku":"9780762788477","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/86tH7ms-k19780762788477.webp?v=1791255107"},{"product_id":"hank-greenberg-the-hero-of-heroes-paperback","title":"Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBaseball during the Great Depression of the 1930s galvanized communities and provided a struggling country with heroes. Jewish player Hank Greenberg gave the people of Detroit--and America--a reason to be proud.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut America was facing more than economic hardship. Hitler's agenda heightened the persecution of Jews abroad while anti-Semitism intensified political and social tensions in the U.S. The six-foot-four-inch Greenberg, the nation's most prominent Jew, became not only an iconic ball player, but also an important and sometimes controversial symbol of Jewish identity and the American immigrant experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout his twelve-year baseball career and four years of military service, he heard cheers wherever he went along with anti-Semitic taunts. The abuse drove him to legendary feats that put him in the company of the greatest sluggers of the day, including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Lou Gehrig. Hank's iconic status made his personal dilemmas with religion versus team and ambition versus duty national debates. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHank Greenberg\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate account of his life--a story of integrity and triumph over adversity and a portrait of one of the greatest baseball players and most important Jews of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eINCLUDES PHOTOS","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67997375037663,"sku":"9780451416025","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ysv3UKOXaw9780451416025.webp?v=1791975041"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-rosengren.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}