Jackie Robinson Best Friend - April 2024

Richard Nixon: The Life

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.   At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns of that now-legendary 1946 campaign, Nixon’s finer attributes gave way to unapologetic ruthlessness. The story of that transformation is the stunning overture to John A. Farrell’s magisterial biography of the p... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01KUDJ5PW
• ASIN: B01KUDJ5PW
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters.  Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to.  Only thirteen paintings are known to be his; as for the illustrated encyclopedia he intended to create, all that he left were thousands of disorganized notebook pages.  Here is an accessible portrait of a fascinating man who lived at a fascinating time—Italy during the Renaissance.

• ASIN: 0448443015
• ASIN: 0448443015
• ISBN: 0448443015
• Brand: Grosset & Dunlap
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete

From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built.Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s $40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-ce... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307353141
• ASIN: 0307353141
• ISBN: 0307353141
• Brand: Rhoden, William C.
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

I am Martin Luther King, Jr. (Ordinary People Change the World)

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer.  Even as a child, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shocked by the terrible and unfair way African-American people were treated. When he grew up, he decided to do something about it—peacefully, with powerful words. He helped gather people together for nonviolent protests and marches, and he always spoke up about loving other human beings and doing what’s right. He spoke about the dream of a kinder future, and bravely led the way toward r... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0525428526
• ASIN: 0525428526
• ISBN: 0525428526
• Brand: WaterBrook Press
• Manufacturer: Dial Books

What Was Pearl Harbor?

A terrifying attack! On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into World War II. In a compelling, easy-to-read narrative, children will learn all about a pivotal moment in American history.

• ASIN: 0448464624
• ASIN: 0448464624
• ISBN: 9780448464626
• Brand: Grosset Dunlap
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

Jackie Robinson in Quotes: The Remarkable Life of Baseball's Most Significant Player

A Fresh Look at an Inspiring Historical FigureJackie Robinson in Quotes tells the life story of arguably the most important baseball player in history with over 400 pages of quotations by and about him. Featured are quotes by Robinson, his widow Rachel Robinson, other family members, friends, teammates, coaches, members of the media, and many more. Danny Peary has skillfully curated the best quotes to shed new light on the man behind number 42, who famously became the first black Major League Baseball player in 1947. The quotes speak for themselves, following Robinson through his childhood to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1624142443
• ASIN: 1624142443
• ISBN: 1624142443
• Manufacturer: Page Street Publishing

The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

Stephen Satlow is an eight-year-old boy living in Brooklyn, New York, which means he only cares about one thing - the Dodgers. Steve and his father spend hours reading the sports pages and listening to games on the radio. Aside from an occasional run-in with his teacher, life is pretty simple for Steve. But then Steve hears a rumor that an African American family is moving to his all-Jewish neighborhood. It's 1948 and some of his neighbors are against it. Steve knows this is wrong. His hero, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier in baseball the year before. Then it happens--Steve's new neig... [Read More]

• ASIN: B010BYMSJK
• ASIN: B010BYMSJK
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced on our world. William McDonald, The Times' obituary editor who was recently featured in the awar... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316395471
• ASIN: 0316395471
• ISBN: 0316395471
• Brand: Black Dog Leventhal
• Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life

In descriptions of athletes, the word “hero” is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be of utmost importance throughout his life—on the diamond, as a marine in World War II, and in his personal and civic life. A New York City icon and, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, one of the finest first basemen of all time, Gil Hodges (1924–72) managed the Washington Senators and later the New York M... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0803211244
• ASIN: 0803211244
• ISBN: 0803211244
• Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press

The Jackie Robinson Reader: Perspectives on an American Hero

• ASIN: 0525940960
• ASIN: 0525940960
• ISBN: 0525940960
• Brand: Brand: Dutton Adult
• Manufacturer: Dutton Adult

What I Learned From Jackie Robinson: A Teammate's Reflections On and Off the Field

AN INTIMATE LOOK AT JACKIE ROBINSON'S FIGHT FOR EQUALITY, FROM FORMER TEAMMATE AND LONGTIME FRIEND CARL ERSKINE "Jackie needed to quell his anger the first couple of years, a task which only someone of this inner strength and vision could have coped with at that moment. When I reflect and wonder what it must have been like for a man who should have been at the happiest of moments in his life, to still have to deal with racial indignities on a daily basis, it is mind-boggling. Most mortal men would have cracked."--Carl Erskine, from the book Jackie Robinson changed the game of baseball forever ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0071450858
• ASIN: 0071450858
• ISBN: 0071450858
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill

Alou: My Baseball Journey

Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man to go from his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series. Today, the Dominican Republic produces more Major League players than any country outside the United States. In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream: to become a doctor. An uncle was funding his university education when an improbable turn of events intervened at the 1955 Pan American Games. There as a track and field athlete, Alou was pressed into ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1496201523
• ASIN: 1496201523
• ISBN: 1496201523
• Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball.Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and neighborhoods were equally divided between Dodger, Giant, and Yankee fans. We meet the people who most influenced Goodwin’s early life: her mother, who taught her the joy of books but whose debilitating illness left her housebound: and her father, who taught her the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000S1LVZE
• ASIN: B000S1LVZE
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Who Was Winston Churchill?

Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the encroaching German Nazis. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honora... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0448483009
• ASIN: 0448483009
• ISBN: 0448483009
• Brand: Grosset Dunlap
• Manufacturer: Penguin Workshop

The Last Good Season: Brooklyn, the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together

In the bestselling tradition of The Boys of Summer and Wait ‘Til Next Year, The Last Good Season is the poignant and dramatic story of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ last pennant and the forces that led to their heartbreaking departure to Los Angeles.The 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers were one of baseball’s most storied teams, featuring such immortals as Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Gil Hodges, and Roy Campanella. The love between team and borough was equally storied, an iron bond of loyalty forged through years of adversity and sometimes legendary ineptitude. Coming off their first World ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385501528
• ASIN: 0385501528
• ISBN: 0385501528
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

Who Was Jackie Robinson?

An introduction to the life and career of baseball's Jackie

• UPC: 14259886
• Rating: 4.0

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she starts to feel at home and make friends when she discovers baseball and the Brooklyn

• UPC: 25690975
• Rating: 3.5

I am Jackie Robinson

Presents an illustrated biography of the man who broke baseball's color barrier and changed the way Americans viewed equality in

• UPC: 39124521
• Rating: 5.0

I Never Had It Made : The Autobiography of Jackie Robinson

Before Ken Griffey Jr., before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's celebrated stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, changing the world of sports

• UPC: 2062116
• Rating: 5.0

Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson

Chronicles the spectacular career of Jackie Robinson, both on and off the baseball diamond, as the Dodger outfielder became the first Black player in professional

• UPC: 399047
• Rating: 4.0

BFF*: Two novels by Judy Blume--Just As Long As We're Together/Here's to You, Rachel Robinson (*Best Friends Forever)

In this new bind-up, Blume's two novels about three *Best Friends Forever will reach a new set of girls. Stephanie, Rachel, and Alison know there will be plenty of family issues, broken hearts, and tough

• UPC: 5223916
• Rating: 4.0

Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball (Paperback)

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

• UPC: 454988

Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America (Hardcover)

A biography of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the major leagues, as told by his

• UPC: 2392769
• Rating: 5.0

42 Faith : The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story

42 Faith: The Rest of the Jackie Robinson Story, Henry,

• UPC: 53835931

The Story of Jackie Robinson : Bravest Man in Baseball

Examines the life of the talented black athlete who broke the color barrier in major league baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in

• UPC: 445573
• Rating: 4.615