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Promises to keep : how Jackie Robinson changed America
A warm, intimate portrait of Jackie Robinson, America's sports icon, told from the unique perspective of a unique insider: his only daughter. Sharon Robinson shares memories of her famous father in this warm loving biography of the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete, a devoted family man and a dedicated civil rights activist. The author ex…
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- 0439678757
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- 64 pages : illustration ; 26 cm
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- 927 ROB
Coming home : a story of Josh Gibson, baseball's greatest home run hitter
A beautifully illustrated tribute to baseball's greatest home run hitter tells how he hit more home runs than Mark McGwire but was never allowed to play in the Major Leagues, and he died four months before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier.
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- 9780439716932
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- 32 pages : illustration : 21 cm
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- 927 GIB
Teammates
This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate. Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and eloquent watercolors by Paul Bacon.
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- 0590366696
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- 32 pages : illustration : 21 cm
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- 927 GOL
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