Pearlman, Jeff

Summary: Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B JACKSON PEA

Kahn, Roger.

Summary: "In Rickey & Robinson, legendary sportswriter Roger Kahn at last reveals the true, unsanitized account of the integration of baseball, a story that for decades has relied on inaccurate secondhand reports. This story contains exclusive reporting and personal reminiscences that no other writer can produce, including revelatory material he'd buried in his notebooks in the '40s and '50s, back when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Books 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KAH

Bryant, Howard

Summary: In "The Last Hero", Bryant chronicles Aaron's childhood in segregated Alabama, his brief stardom in the Negro Leagues, his complicated relationship with celebrity, and his historic rivalry with Willie Mays--all culminating in the defining event of his life: his shattering of Babe Ruth's all-time home-run record. Bryant also examines Aaron's more complex second act: his quest to become an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B AARON BRY

Summary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAC

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAC

Summary: In graphic novel format, presents the life and achievements of the baseball player who became the first African American to play in the major leagues.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Pub. 2008

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Graph Robinson

Beer, Jeremy.

Summary: The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball's greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLESTON, OSCAR BEE

Kennedy, Kostya

Summary: "True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBINSON, JACKIE KEN