Opening Day is a book that was wrote to tell about the most important Opening Day in Major League Baseball history. Opening Day tells the story of how Jackie Robinson made his way to the Major Leagues. It tells how people thought about a black man playing Major League Baseball during segregation. Jonathan Eig is a special senior writer for the Wall Street Journal based in Chicago. He was formerly executive editor of Chicago magazine. He is the also the author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig.
April 15, 1947 marked the most important opening day in Major League Baseball history, when Jackie Robinson stepped on the diamond at Ebbets Field. At that moment Jackie Robinson became the first black man to break the color barrier
April 15, 1947 marked the most important opening day in Major League Baseball history, when Jackie Robinson stepped on the diamond at Ebbets Field. At that moment Jackie Robinson became the first black man to break the color barrier