Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season
(2007)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ROBINSON,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/ROBINSON,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2007]
©2007
DESCRIPTION

x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780743294607, 0743294602
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Jack Roosevelt Robinson -- Some good colored players -- The uprising -- Opening day -- Up in Harlem -- Praying for base hits -- Cardinal sins -- The great road trip -- Tearing up the pea patch -- Pee-wee's embrace -- The glorious crusade -- A smile of almost painful joy -- Up and down Macdonough street -- A real gone guy -- A good thing for everybody -- The poison pen -- The unbeatable yanks -- Dixie Walker's dilemma -- The footsteps of enos 'country' slaughter -- Shadow dancing -- "We aren't afraid" -- "And the world series is over!"