robinson, jackie

A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.

A biography of the first African-American player in modern American major league baseball, emphasizing the prejudice he had to overcome by sheer courage.

Joe Stoshack, a boy who has the ability to travel through time, learns a lesson about dignified behavior in the face of ethnic and racial strife when he goes back to 1947 to meet African-American baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

Relates the life story of the first African-American to play baseball in the major leagues.

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.

Presents a short biography on Jackie Robinson and discusses his early childhood in Georgia and California, college sports and days with the Kansas City Monarchs baseball league, and recruitment as the first African-American to play major league baseball.

A biography of the first African-American player in the major leagues, who was elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1962.

A biography of the first African-American baseball player to be accepted by a major league team.