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Author Jackson, Ransom, 1926-2019

Title Handsome Ransom Jackson : accidental Big Leaguer / Ransom Jackson, with Gaylon H. White
Published Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 262 pages)
Contents Early Years and the Minor Leagues -- The Big Leagues -- Life After Baseball -- Ransom Thoughts -- Ransom Jackson Career Batting Statistics
Summary "Handsome Ransom" Jackson was an all-star third baseman in the 1950s. He was in Chicago in 1953 when Ernie Banks became the first African American to play for the Cubs. He was in Brooklyn in 1956, the year Jackie Robinson retired and Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game in the World Series. In 1957, Jackson was the last Brooklyn player to hit a home run before the team was moved to L.A. This autobiographical account, told by Ransom Jackson Jr. to Gaylon H. White, shares all these stories and more, spanning from Jackson's youth to his college years playing both football and b
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 247) and index
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Subject Jackson, Ransom, 1926-2019.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Baseball players
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author White, Gaylon H., 1946-
LC no. 2021677127
ISBN 9781442261556
1442261552