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Jackie Robinson : a biography / Mary Kay Linge. |
| Authors: | Linge, Mary Kay. |
| Call number: | 796.357 Robinson LIN |
| Publisher: | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007. |
| Publication date: | 2007. |
| Subject: |
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
African American baseball players -- Biography. Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972. |
| Series title: | Greenwood biographies |
| Title: | Jackie Robinson : a biography / Mary Kay Linge. |
| Physical description: | xvii, 163 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note: | Childhood, 1919-1936 -- College man, 1936-1941 -- The battle of Camp Hood, 1941-1944 -- Baseball calling, 1945-1946 -- Breaking barriers, 1947 -- The Jackie Robinson Dodgers, 1948-1951 -- The boys of summer, 1952-1954 -- Triumph and decline, 1955-1956 -- Business and politics, 1957-1961 -- Hall of famer, 1962-1968 -- Heartbreak, 1969-1972. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780313338281 (alk. paper) 0313338280 (alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2007009619 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1139059 |
| Bib No.: | 1139059 |