Explores the life and career of Jackie Robinson, from his childhood in Pasadena, California, through his struggles with prejudice and discrimination, to his success as a major league baseball player.
A brief biography of Jackie Robinson and his struggles as the first African American baseball player.
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"In graphic novel format, tells the life story of Jackie Robinson and his pro baseball career"--Provided by publisher.
The world Jackie Robinson was born into was not a welcoming one. Cairo, Georgia, like other places in the South, kept blacks and whites separate. Segregation was a hard fact of life for African Americans. Jackie was the youngest of ...
Jackie Robinson: Baseball's Great Pioneer
This book, in graphic novel format, tells the life story of Jackie Robinson and his pro baseball career.
Uses original graphic illustrations to explore the life of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball.
Uses original graphic illustrations to explore the life of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball.
The Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor , the American naval base in Hawaii , that morning , December 7. The United States was entering World War II . When he returned , Jackie joined a semipro basAME ON ketball team , the Los Angeles Red ...
To be named to the Hall of Fame, a player has to receive 75 percent of the vote by the members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Sportswriters across the country debated whether Robinson would receive the honor.
Tammy and Tommy Time bring a friend on their When Machine. Together they watch Jackie Robinson make baseball history.
... which was released in 2013 and starred Chadwick Bosemanas Robinson. LIFE AFTER BASEBALL friends with the famous civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. 27 Robinson and King respected each other. When King wenttojail.
Highlights the life and accomplishments of professional baseball player Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the Major Leagues.
A brief biography of Jackie Robinson, the man who was the first African American baseball player on a major league team, as well as the first African American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
... 249 Goldberg, Arthur, 442 Goldberg, Jack, 189, 191,263 Goldberg, Philip J., 396 Goldman, Milton, 190 Goldwater, Barry, 346, 382, 384, 385-6, 387, 388,426 Goldwyn, Sam, Jr., 333 Gomez, Ruben, 258 Goodman, Andrew, 390 Gordon, Bernice, ...
The runner must get to the next base before the pitcher or the catcher gets the ball to the baseman to tag the runner out . I'd take a long lead off of the base , pretending I was just about to run for the next one . Then suddenly , I'd ...
A biography of the Afro-American who fought racial injustice both during and after his celebrated baseball career.
" - Jackie Robinson In his introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader, sports historian Jules Tygiel succinctly observed, "Extraordinary lives often reveal ordinary truths. Jackie Robinson was born in 1919 and died in 1972.