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Summary: "An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Traces the life of the first black Major League baseball player of the modern era, detailing his childhood, his career as an MVP-award winning baseball player, and a hero of the civil rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR Purple Robinson 2008Maraniss, Andrew
Summary: "The true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 BURPearlman, Jeff
Summary: Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B JACKSON PEASummary: In graphic novel format, presents the life and achievements of the baseball player who became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Pub. 2008
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Summary: "An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the high five, the world's most recognizable handshake. Playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glenn Burke could do it all--hit, throw, run, field. He was the heart of the clubhouse who energized his teammates with his enthusiasm and love for the game....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Strauss Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BURO'Connor, Jim.
Summary: Presents a biography of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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Summary: Surveys the life and career of the baseball star most noted for hitting 755 home runs--a record that lasted over thirty years--describing his time in the Negro Leagues and his work off the field to advance equal opportunity in baseball.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 AARMara, Wil.
Summary: When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the fir st African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBHerman, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2011
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Summary: "Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie knew that sports were best when everyone, of every color, played together. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am RobinsonSmith, Elliott
Summary: "On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made history when he stepped onto the baseball diamond as a Brooklyn Dodger. For the first time in more than 60 years, a Black player took the field in a professional baseball game. How did Robinson break through the racist barriers that had kept so many Black athletes out of professional sports? And what is the enduring legacy of his remarkable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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Summary: The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball's greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLESTON, OSCAR BEERappaport, Doreen
Summary: "Baseball, basketball, football, tennis, track and field -- no matter the game or competition, Jackie Robinson hit it out of the park. His exceptional talents should have easily landed him a career in pro sports. But in the United States in the 1930s and '40s, opportunities like those were closed to athletes like Jackie: his skin was the wrong color. Jackie settled for playing baseball in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA 921 ROBRobinson, Rachel
Summary: In the spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking down baseball's decades-old color line and changing the face of the game forever. Now, in this intimate portrait, Robinson's widow, Rachel, tells her husband's story - and that of her life with him - from her unique perspective. But the tale of Jackie Robinson doesn't begin and end with baseball. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.357 ROBPeterson, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1970
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 PETKennedy, 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 KENPerron, Cam
Summary: "The extraordinary, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron--a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston--and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition andcompensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 PERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.3576 PERRiley, James A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 RILKahn, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KAHHoena, B. A.
Summary: "In an era of discrimination, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's race barrier. Facing harassment, he stayed focused on the game, becoming the MLB Rookie of the Year in 1947 and later a baseball legend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBBryant, Howard
Summary: In "The Last Hero", Bryant chronicles Aaron's childhood in segregated Alabama, his brief stardom in the Negro Leagues, his complicated relationship with celebrity, and his historic rivalry with Willie Mays--all culminating in the defining event of his life: his shattering of Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Bryant also examines Aaron's more complex second act: his quest to become an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010