In Gerald L. Early’s A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports, he uses several sources to discuss the complex character of Jackie Robinson. While the author talks about the first black athlete to play in major league baseball, the sources vary on dates. Early’s first source is from a documentary about baseball from 1965 and the second source from the New York Times from 1950. The purpose of using these sources was to help prove his point from different standpoints. Both of the sources cited are used to talk about the endurance that Robinson showed when faced with hostility. However, the first quote does mention that, “there were slip-ups on occasion in that first year in Montreal.” By including this, Early
