Play ball, Jackie!

Description:

On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball. Includes facts about Jackie Robinson's life and career.

subjects: Race relations,  Juvenile fiction,  Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team),  Fiction,  Baseball,  African American baseball players,  African Americans,  Baseball stories,  Children's fiction,  Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, fiction,  Baseball, fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  African americans, fiction

People: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)