First in the field :

Dingle, Derek T.

First in the field : baseball hero Jackie Robinson / [by] Derek T. Dingle. - New York : Scholastic, 1999,c1998. - 48 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

A biography which discusses the discrimination faced by Jackie Robinson, the baseball legend who became the first African American to play Major League baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

8-A. 3-7.

0439050677 (pbk.)


Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.


Baseball players--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
Discrimination--History.

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