Jackie Robinson
Subtitle: A Biography
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: September 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780345426550
Subjects: Robinson, Jackie,; Biography/Autobiography; Baseball players; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Sports - Baseball; Historical - U.S.; Baseball - History; Biography & Autobiography / Sports; 1919-1972; Afro-American baseball players; Biography
First sentence: NEAR SIX O'CLOCK on the evening of January 31, 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born somewhere near the town of Cairo in Grady County in southern Georgia, a few miles north of the Florida state line.