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Double Play
By Robert Forster (narrator) and Robert B. Parker
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Phoenix Books Inc
Publication date January 1, 2006
Binding CD/Spoken Word
Edition Unabridged
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781597770149
ISBN-10 1597770140
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.50 by 6 in.
Weight 0.45 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Business
Original list price $21.95
Other format details audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Robert B. Parker fans have been quick to embrace each addition to his remarkable canon, from the legendary Spenser series to the novels featuring Jesse Stone and Sunny Randall. And his occasional forays into the past -- Gunman's Rhapsody, a fresh take on Wyatt Earp, and Poodle Springs, based on a Raymond Chandler story -- have dazzled critics and confirmed his place among the greatest writers of this century. With Double Play, he presents us with a book he was literally born to write.

It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers -- and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong associations can prove fatal.

A brilliant novel about a very real man, Double Play is a triumph: ingeniously crafted, rich with period detail, and resounding with the themes familiar to Parker's readers -- honor, duty, responsibility, and redemption.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780399151880 Book cover for 9781587247309
 
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (July 9, 2004)
9781587247309 | details & prices | 285 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $32.95
About: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
from Putnam Pub Group (May 1, 2004)
9780399151880 | details & prices | 320 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $24.95
About: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780425199633
 
Reprint edition from Putnam Pub Group (June 7, 2005)
9780425199633 | details & prices | 3289 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.32 lbs | List price $7.99
About: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
With Roy Arthur Suelflow | from Concordia Pub House (February 1, 1980); titled "Christian Churches in Recent Times: Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries"
9780570062745 | details & prices | List price $5.50
This edition also contains Christian Churches in Recent Times: Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
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Miscellaneous
Book cover for 9781605147741
 
from Findaway World Llc (July 1, 2008)
9781605147741 | details & prices | List price $54.99
About: 1947: Jackie Robinson breaks baseball's color barrierand changes the world.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781590074275 Book cover for 9781597770149
 
The price comparison is for this edition
With Robert Forster (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Phoenix Books Inc (January 1, 2006)
9781597770149 | details & prices | 5.50 × 6.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $21.95
About: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
With Robert Forster (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from New Millenium Audio (April 1, 2004)
9781590074275 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $34.95
About: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781590074268
 
With Robert Forster (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from New Millenium Audio (April 1, 2004)
9781590074268 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $24.95
About: In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
Prebinding
Book cover for 9781435293106
 
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (May 29, 2008)
9781435293106 | details & prices | 3289 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $16.99

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