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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
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[2013]
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History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, discussing his family, college and military years, athletic abilities, career in the Negro Leagues, move to the majors, and activism on behalf of African-Americans.
6) Double play
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In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
7) Mr. 3000
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Stan Ross was a great Major League hitter, and also a major league jerk. Upon reaching his 3000th hit and securing his place in the Hall of Fame, Stan retires, leaving his team in a lurch just before the playoffs. 9 years later when Stan is on the verge of sports immortality, a statistical error reveals that Stan, "Mr. 3000", is really Stan, "Mr. 2997". Now, at nearly 50 years old, and 3 hits shy of hitting his goal, Stan decides to make a comeback....
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Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"People of Character explores important character traits through the lives of famous historical figures. Jackie Robinson highlights how this great individual demonstrated determination during his life. Intended for grades three through six"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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Documents the author's cross-country travels at the side of Negro Leagues champion Buck O'Neil, a journey during which the pair sought to recapture their love of the game, remembered O'Neil's history-making career, and explored the numerous challenges that the sport has overcome.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of black America’s most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today. In a long career spanning from 1915 to 1954, Charleston played against, managed, befriended, and occasionally...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
15) Jackie Robinson
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Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the fir st African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
16) Jackie Robinson
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents the life of the first African American to play Major League baseball, from his childhood to his role as a hero of the Civil Rights Movement.
19) Jackie Robinson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Presents the life and career of the baseball legend who became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he’s scored more runs than any player ever. 'If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you’d have two Hall of Famers,' the baseball historian Bill James once said. But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson’s is a story of Oakland, California, the town...
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