num_pages: 32
description: This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate. Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and eloquent watercolors by Paul Bacon.
language: English
title: Teammates
titlecomplete: Teammates
genres: Cultural, Historical, Biography, Picture Books, Baseball, Nonfiction, Sports, Childrens, History, African American
ratings_count: 706
publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers