Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and broke the color ban in major league baseball. This is the remarkable story of Lester Rodney, sports editor of the Daily Worker, New York's Communist Party newspaper. For over a dozen years, Lester Rodney’s columns fought the ban, calling it Unfair, Un-American and The Crime of the Big Leagues. Who would have thought that a young communist sportswriter would become the loudest voice in the fight to desegregate America’s national pastime?
