Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball
- ISBN-10
- 0553535730
- ISBN-13
- 9780553535730
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-25
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers
- Author
- Jim O'Connor
Description
Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
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