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Sports and entertainmentHerman, Gail
Summary: A biography of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, discussing his family, college and military years, athletic abilities, career in the Negro Leagues, move to the majors, and activism on behalf of African-Americans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who RobinsonKahn, Roger.
Summary: "In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate secondhand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including revelatory material he'd buried in his notebooks in the '40s and '50s, back when...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KAHRampersad, Arnold.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, JACKIE RAMSummary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACKennedy, Kostya
Summary: "True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, JACKIE KENRobinson, Jackie
Summary: An anthology of Jackie Robinson's columns in the New York Post and the New York Amsterdam News newspapers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013