Red Barber has lot of anecdotes on baseball. A lot. Barber sat on the front row when Jackie Robinson was put forward to be the first black man in baseball by Branch Rickey, he was the Dodgers' broadcaster at the time. He knows a lot. Het lets us know he knows a lot. But Red Barber is not a writer. And no historian, for that matter. It just seems that this book is a transcript of Barber speaking into a recording device. Stories pop up twice, there is no clear line of events and thus, despite Robinson being the greatest, however long overdue thing that happened to baseball, no buildup to this great occasion. Jackie Robinson is just a sideline in this book, that even has Robinson on the cover. A wasted opportunity, I think.