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On April 15, 1947, a Brooklyn Dodger named Jackie Ronbinson made baseball history. He became the first black to play major-league baseball in the twentieth century. Practically everyone knows about Jackie Robinson. But have you heard about Satchel Paige or Josh Gibson or Cool Papa Bell? These incredible black players came before Jackie and played on some of the greatest all-black teams ever. If you like baseball, you'll love reading all about Jackie Robinson and the exciting but little-known days of the Negro leagues.
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Illus. in full color with black-and-white photos. "Covers not only the story of Robinson's prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience."--"Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
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Jim O’Connor is a children’s author. His books include Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball, Let’s Hear it for the Shrumps!, The Puck Stops Here!, The Ghost in Tent 19, Call Me Gretzky, and many books in the popular Who Was? series.
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- PublisherTurtleback Books
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0812476441
- ISBN 13 9780812476446
- BindingLibrary Binding
- Number of pages48
- IllustratorJim O'Connor, Jim Butcher
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Book Description Library Binding. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Jim O'Connor; Jim Butcher (illustrator). Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.5. Seller Inventory # G0812476441I5N00
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