During January and February, the Indiana Repertory Theatre will be staging Steven Dietz’s play Jackie & Me, which is based on Dan Gutman’s book Jackie and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure.

 

Selector Kathy Barnard has put together a collection of Robinson-related materials.

 

 

Opening Day : The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig

 

 

 

Jackie Robinson : a Biography by Mary Kay Linge

 

 

 

Double Play [Fiction] by Robert B. Parker

 

 

 

I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson : an Intimate Portrait by Rachel Robinson

 

 

How To Be Like Jackie Robinson : Life Lessons From Baseball’s Greatest Hero by Pat Williams

 

 

 

Blackout : The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training by Chris Lamb

 

 

 

Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball by Scott Simon

Also available as an e-book.

 

 

Jackie Robinson [DVD]

 

 

Conspiracy of Silence : Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball by Chris Lamb

Sport and the Color Line : Black Athletes and Race Relations in Twentieth-Century America edited by Patrick B. Miller, and David K. Wiggins

 

Jackie Robinson : a Biography by Arnold Rampersad

Also available as an e-book.

 

 

Extra Bases : Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History by Jules Tygiel