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Jackie Robinson: The Life and Legacy of the Star Who Broke Major League Baseball's Color Barrier

Jackie Robinson: The Life and Legacy of the Star Who Broke Major League Baseball's Color Barrier

Charles River

Paperback

Historical FiguresBaseball & Softball

ISBN10: 1795339446
ISBN13: 9781795339445
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.17 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
*Includes pictures
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. - Jackie Robinson
In his introduction to The Jackie Robinson Reader, sports historian Jules Tygiel succinctly observed, Extraordinary lives often reveal ordinary truths. Jackie Robinson was born in 1919 and died in 1972. He crammed into these brief fifty-three years a legacy of accomplishment, acclaim, controversy, and influence matched by few Americans. He was, even before his historic baseball breakthrough, an athlete of legendary proportions. He won fame and adulation as the first African-American to play in the major leagues in the twentieth century, launching an athletic revolution that transformed American sports. He garnered baseball's highest honors: Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame. More significantly, Robinson became a symbol of racial integration and a prominent leader in the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet Jackie Robinson's half century among us illuminates not just the contours of an exceptional life, but much about the broader African-American experience of those years.

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